Higher Education Reform

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 January 1998.

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Photo of Don Foster Don Foster Liberal Democrat, Bath 12:00, 29 January 1998

Is not the only reason why the Minister has had to spend so much money on advertising details of his proposals to students, the Government's hasty and ill-conceived response to the Dearing commission report? Does he agree that the proposals will do nothing to improve the funding crisis left by the previous Government because of the failure to passport the additional money from student fees to higher education, and that we shall end up with a higher education system that has two tiers—ivy league universities and bargain basement universities?