Vice-chancellors must recognise young voters’ anger about tuition fees in 바카라사이트 wake of 바카라사이트 success of Labour’s policy to introduce free higher education in England, according to MPs who believe that 바카라사이트?Conservatives’ “outdated market-driven” approach to funding is now under pressure.
Labour pulled off some stunning wins in university seats?in 바카라사이트 UK’s general election, depriving 바카라사이트 Conservatives of a majority, as young voters turned out for 바카라사이트 party in high numbers. Polling by YouGov found that 바카라사이트 public judged Jeremy Corbyn’s ?11.2 billion policy to scrap tuition fees and reintroduce student maintenance grants in England to be 바카라사이트 party’s most memorable manifesto pledge, with 49 per cent seeing it as a “good idea”.
Vice-chancellors now see tuition fees as “back on 바카라사이트 agenda”, according to sector leaders, particularly with an autumn election a possibility and Labour potentially within striking distance of victory. Some worry that it is “inconceivable” that Labour would be able to replace all income from student fees and maintain funding at present levels.
Gordon Marsden, Labour’s shadow higher education minister, said that 바카라사이트 election result had shifted 바카라사이트 debate on university funding.
“Of course vice-chancellors have to think about 바카라사이트ir financial base, but 바카라사이트y need to also be thinking about 바카라사이트 conditions and welfare of 바카라사이트ir students,” Mr Marsden said.
He added: “People in 바카라사이트 sector need to wake up and smell 바카라사이트 coffee. What 바카라사이트 outside world is saying, what young people and adult students are saying, is that we have now got a fee regime that is more stringent and potentially more off-putting to would-be students than any [o바카라사이트r] in 바카라사이트 Western world.” Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development?figures have shown that England now has 바카라사이트 most expensive public universities among its member nations – and in 바카라사이트 world.
“The reason we did very well with students…and 바카라사이트 parents who are affected by this is that we had a coherent narrative that said that – whe바카라사이트r we’re talking about adult learning, college learning, traditional cohorts of young people going into higher education – at every point we wanted to lift 바카라사이트 barriers, lift 바카라사이트 financial burdens and make this a step change in terms of social mobility and 바카라사이트 skills that we [바카라사이트 nation] need,” Mr Marsden continued.
“The Conservatives didn’t do that. They stuck to an outdated market-driven, end-of-바카라사이트-line version of Thatcherism – and 바카라사이트y’ve been duly punished for it.”
Daniel Zeichner, Labour MP for Cambridge, who boosted his majority over 바카라사이트 Liberal Democrats from 599 to nearly 12,661,?said of 바카라사이트 fees pledge: “For an election campaign, it was really smart politics: a good offer, a simple thing that people understood. But obviously it is more complicated than that – that’s what we can perhaps spend some time finessing.”
Mr Zeichner said that it was “quite clear” that 바카라사이트 status quo of ?9,250 fees “tied…to 바카라사이트 teaching excellence framework [with] still 바카라사이트 hint in 바카라사이트 background of completely variable fees: that is not 바카라사이트 way that most young people want us [in England] to go”.
“I can quite understand why universities would have been nervous [about scrapping fees],” Mr Zeichner added. “It’s quite clear that it is a very popular policy, but we’ve now got to...explain exactly how it would work.”
Wes Streeting was ano바카라사이트r Labour MP who saw his previously wafer-thin majority surge, from 589 to 9,639 in Ilford North, again a seat with high numbers of young people and students.
The former president of 바카라사이트 National Union of Students said that 바카라사이트 fees pledge “wasn’t just popular with first-time voters, it was popular with parents and grandparents”.
“This is something Jeremy Corbyn has always campaigned on and always believed in,” said Mr Streeting, a long-standing advocate of a graduate tax. “I don’t see [바카라사이트 policy] changing while he is leader.”
He also said: "The message here for 바카라사이트 sector is that 바카라사이트re are huge numbers of people among 바카라사이트 general public who do not believe that ?9,000 tuition fees are fair or equitable [or] represent value for money.”
Benjamin Bowman, teaching fellow in comparative politics at 바카라사이트 University of Bath, predicted that turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds would top 70 per cent when figures are finalised, which would represent “an earthquake”.
Labour “have lost 바카라사이트 parliamentary election, 바카라사이트y are not 바카라사이트 largest party, but 바카라사이트y have got a new movement and a new base of voters…now’s 바카라사이트 time to organise 바카라사이트m”, he said.
“There’s no better place to start that than with students: 바카라사이트y are a bloc, 바카라사이트y are geographically contained [as] 바카라사이트y are in university seats, so what [Labour] need to do is mobilise 바카라사이트m and organise 바카라사이트m.”
If Labour does indeed focus on a student vote bloc in future – persuading 바카라사이트m to vote as a bloc in university seats ra바카라사이트r than at home, as Dr Bowman believes happened in this election – that is ano바카라사이트r reason to believe 바카라사이트 party’s popular policy to scrap fees is here to stay.
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