Top-ups row could be ticket to power

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The Liberal Democrat party's promise of free higher education could be a vote winner at the next general election, possibly even winning them dozens of additional seats, claimed the Lib Dems' senior education minister, John Howson, in a speech at the party's annual conference in Bournemouth, UK, in week commencing 19 September 2004. Howson claimed that the party's popularity with students could see them win 35 seats in a general election.

United Kingdom, Public affairs, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Political parties, Speeches, lectures and essays, Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Howson, John

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Creative minds enjoy the challenge of change

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The chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England looks forward to the changes the Government's Higher Education Act will bring about for the Higher Education sector. He contends that change is something the higher education sector can tackle with confidence as the sector as a whole is energetic and full of intellectual vigour, even if it is cash-strapped.

Organizational history, England, Analysis, Education, Higher, Higher education, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Higher education and state, Company organization, Educational reform

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