Higher Education: Tuition Fees

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:08 pm on 6 November 2003.

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Photo of Earl Russell Earl Russell Liberal Democrat 3:08, 6 November 2003

My Lords, is the Minister aware that, even before the introduction of any tuition fees, the student loan is so far from maintaining students as to create a severe inequity in terms of parental bank balances between students already at university, to the extent that perhaps one should advise those estranged from their parents not to go to university at all? Is she further aware that putting additional debt on students can be only an incentive to go for only high-salaried jobs and would be nothing but an obstacle to further teacher recruitment?