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Eastleigh MP Pledges Support for Fairer University Fees
January 4, 2010 3:33 PM
Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne today signed up to support the National Union of Students (NUS) campaign Funding Our Future campaign. The campaign believes that the education funding system is too complicated to be helpful to students. Instead, the NUS are proposing a single, simple student finance support system that can be a central distribution mechanism for all finance questions and solutions.
The Government launched a review of higher education funding on 9 November 2009 which is expected to announce top-up fees of up to £10,000, an increase that both the Liberal Democrats and the NUS are vigorously against.
Commenting, Chris Huhne MP said:
"Everyone who has the ability and desire to go to university should be able to, and the price of study should not be a hindrance.
"The Liberal Democrats have strongly opposed top-up fees, and I urge the government not to saddle students with even more debt, and instead to create one simple, centralised system of student finance that increases accessibility to further education, rather than acting as a further barrier to it.
"Higher education funding must be based on fairness and access to all, and I am therefore delighted to support the NUS campaign."
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