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Queens Speech: Top-Up Fees a Disaster for Univerities and Students
November 26, 2003 12:00 AM
Commenting on today's Queen's Speech, announcing the Government's programme for the forthcoming Session of Parliament, David Rendel MP said:
"The Government's plans to introduce university top-up fees would be a disaster for students and universities.
"Student debt is expected to rise above £30,000 by 2010, putting many people off the idea of going to university in the first place. In fact, graduates earning less than £35,000 will be paying a marginal rate of 42% of their income in tax in order to pay off their debt - more than we charge millionaires!
"Meanwhile universities will not be getting the extra money that they need, and the Government will be imposing yet more bureaucracy on already hard-pressed university teachers.
"I and my Liberal Democrat colleagues will strongly oppose this Bill."
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