Bullish Clarke sets out stall

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Education secretary Charles Clarke is bullish when it comes to defending the radicalism of his white paper on higher education and feels no guilt about promoting the ideas of top-up fees for students and the development of a hierarchy of universities. Clarke claims that the white paper offers a fantastic package for higher education in the United Kingdom and goes so far as to state that many students would even be prepared to pay more than he proposes in return for being treated like adults. Clarke acknowledges that reform of higher education has always been a controversial area, but claims that it has been to the detriment of British education that people have backed away from the subject.

Organizational history, Management, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Company organization, Clarke, Charles

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Hodge: we will control market

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Higher education minister Margaret Hodge, speaking at a Downing Street seminar hosted by the Smith Institute, has admitted that the UK government would consider reducing funding for student places at newer universities that elect to charge the full top-up fee of UKPd3,000 in order to prevent its higher education policy from collapsing. Hodge stated that the government would contemplate state intervention in order to "create a market" in higher education amidst fears that the majority of universities will charge the maximum UKPd3,000/yr top-up fee from 2006.

Government expenditures, Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Commodity & service prices, Colleges and universities, Finance, Prices and rates, Universities and colleges, Company pricing policy, Government finance

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Hodge: review will be radical

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The UK government's higher education review paper will be "highly contentious" and "radical", higher education minister Margaret Hodge told students and academics at Nottingham University. Hodge noted that the paper would need to achieve a careful balancing act but was careful not to reveal any precise details about what the paper would contain, including on the issue of whether universities should be allowed to charge differential or top-up fees.

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