Higher Education Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 5:09 pm on 14 June 2004.

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Photo of The Bishop of Portsmouth The Bishop of Portsmouth Bishop 5:09, 14 June 2004

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Russell, who brings to debates his experiences as a university teacher, which I half-shared in a previous don manqué existence.

One of the clichés often hurled at modern leadership and government is "control freakery". I come to legislation as a layman. What it is intended to enact is in itself important but, as I said earlier, the signal that it gives out to the wider community is, to me, equally important. The academic community would find the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, welcome, appropriate, right and proper. I hope that it is taken very seriously.