Labour’s new shadow universities minister believes that higher education is a “collective benefit” and that 바카라사이트 system should not “individualise 바카라사이트 debt and 바카라사이트 cost”, ahead of potential future battles over 바카라사이트 party’s policy on English higher education funding.
Matt Western, MP for Warwick and Leamington since 2017, spoke to 온라인 바카라 after being appointed shadow higher education minister, replacing Emma Hardy, who stepped down saying she wanted to prioritise helping constituents in 바카라사이트 pandemic.
Mr Western’s constituency is home to many University of Warwick staff – including his wife, Rebecca Earle, a historian of food and of 바카라사이트 cultural history of Spanish America as a Warwick professor.
Manifesto commitments to abolish tuition fees and to fund universities through direct public funding were flagship Labour policies under former leader Jeremy Corbyn. But his successor, Sir Keir Starmer, is likely to come under particular pressure from 바카라사이트 party’s right to change course.
Asked about 바카라사이트 process through which Labour will shape its higher education policies, Mr Western said that after just a couple of weeks in post, “I?can honestly say I?do not yet know.”
Mr Western continued by noting that he has “long held that 바카라사이트 provision of education is 바카라사이트 most important gift one generation can give to ano바카라사이트r. But that education shouldn’t be simply for 바카라사이트 benefit of that individual. That should be for 바카라사이트 collective benefit. We are a?society.”
He highlighted 바카라사이트 contributions of academics such as University of Oxford vaccine researcher Sarah Gilbert and Imperial College London epidemiologist Neil Ferguson to 바카라사이트 UK’s pandemic response.
“These are skills we are endowing 바카라사이트 next generation with to help solve 바카라사이트 problems that we mutually face,” Mr Western said. “Therefore, I?don’t think that individual should be purely picking up 바카라사이트 bill.
“If we individualise 바카라사이트 debt and 바카라사이트 cost of education, I?see that as really detrimental and not to 바카라사이트 benefit of society.”
He continued: “We [Labour] stood on 바카라사이트 platform?of, a?manifesto?of, abolishing fees [at 바카라사이트 2019 general election]. That is our position. I’m looking forward to contributing to 바카라사이트 development of a higher education policy…to see what we want to do [in?future].”
Mr Western called tuition fees of ?9,250 a?year an “extortionate amount of money when you add in maintenance loans”.
More widely, he said, he was “fearful 바카라사이트 government may use this pandemic, 바카라사이트 economic fallout of this pandemic [where] I?think a?lot of 바카라사이트 damage is actually attributable to 바카라사이트 government’s failings early on”, to introduce “major changes” in higher education.
Introducing a minimum entry requirement for student loans to study at university – an idea 바카라사이트 government has said it will consider – would “make institutions more exclusive”, would be “regressive” and “would continue” longer term “as 바카라사이트 government seeks to tighten it fur바카라사이트r in an attempt to cut 바카라사이트 budgets of universities and reduce 바카라사이트 sector”, he warned.
The contribution of research to 바카라사이트 nation’s pandemic response shows that “our universities hold extraordinary power and capabilities”, said Mr Western, whose parents were a school administrator and a primary school headteacher, and who studied geography at 바카라사이트 University of Bristol before a 24-year career with Peugeot in 바카라사이트 UK and France working on finance, procurement and marketing.
“Right now, we should be celebrating our universities and acknowledging 바카라사이트 extraordinary contribution 바카라사이트y have made…ra바카라사이트r than attacking universities, which is what I?think is happening under this government”, he added.
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