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The Independent View: Why the Lib Dems should end their opposition to tuition fees
Written by Julian Astle on 2nd December 2008 – 11:15 amThe Liberal Democrats stand alone among the three main political parties in promising to abolish university tuition fees. They do so in the hope that making tuition ‘free’ will draw more students from low income families into the higher education (HE) system.
This superficially attractive proposition ignores two important facts, however.
First, there is no such thing [...]
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