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Debate on the Address — [First Day] (26 Nov 2003)

Mr Eric Forth: ...offer scholarships to bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to allow them to take advantage of the courses on offer. So the market approach can be tempered by institutional support, but it can also be supported by a discretionary financial support mechanism offered by the Government of the day. I believe that it is, in itself, a good thing that young people should be expected...

Debate on the Address — [First Day] (26 Nov 2003)

Mr Eric Forth: ...is eminently soluble through a whole battery of responses. What we must not do, however, is reverse matters and try to solve the problem from the other end. Incidentally, I am not making a plea for top-up fees; I am making a plea for fees full stop—full-blown, full-on, frontal fees, judged by the institutions themselves. I have not done research in any detail, but I have probably not...

Business of the House (21 Nov 2002)

Mr Eric Forth: ...-Budget report, we shall want to consider the state of the economy and of the Government's finances very carefully. Perhaps we shall see the Chancellor in an altogether new light. That would be an uplifting experience, certainly for those on the Conservative Benches, and it should happen in any case. I want to ask the Leader of the House about the crisis in higher education. Is there such...

Opposition Day: Higher Education (5 Feb 1997)

Mr Eric Forth: ...each year has doubled since 1979. More than one third of those are the science, mathematics and engineering graduates who are so vital to our international competitiveness. The UK is near the top of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development league for science and engineering graduates entering the young work force, ahead of Germany and the United States. My hon. Friend...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Employment: Higher Education Tuition Fees (21 Feb 1996)

Mr Eric Forth: ...had representations from students, parents and others with a direct interest in higher education, expressing concern at the proposal of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals to introduce top-up entrance fees. The Government share that concern and see no need for universities or colleges to impose such fees.

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