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Ex-postie plans to deliver

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Alan Johnson, who took over the position of higher education minister early in 2003 from Margaret Hodge, believes that top-up fees are a tool for social justice that will help to crowbar working-class children in university. It is Johnson's job to pilot the Labour Party's plans to introduce higher education top-up fees through parliament. To date, these plans have proven to be amongst the most contentious put forward by Labour. Johnson argues that for higher education in the United Kingdom to remain viable then it must expand and investment in it must increase, and that the only way to achieve this is to introduce top-up fees.

Organizational history, Management, Interview, Education, Higher, Higher education, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Company organization, Educational finance, Johnson, Alan

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Battle to stave off fees defeat

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The UK's Labour government and the universities are to join forces in an attempt to saves Labour's plans for UKPd3,000 top-up fees from the increasing prospect of defeat in autumn 2003 by a threatened rebellion by Labour backbenchers. In their efforts to win over the Labour MPs, government ministers and the universities will be competing against the trade unions and the National Union of Students, both of which will be lobbying MPs to vote against the proposed top-up fee legislation, which is due to be introduced in autumn 2003.

United Kingdom, Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Alliances, partnerships, Colleges and universities, Administration of Education Programs, Education Programs, Universities and colleges, Education and state, Political aspects, Labour Party (United Kingdom), Alliances and partnerships

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