Ed Miliband talks of ¡®radical offer¡¯ on fees

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Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband has said that Labour wants to give voters a ¡°radical offer¡± on tuition fees at 바카라사이트 next election, a possible hint that 바카라사이트 party could replace tuition fees with a graduate tax.

¡°Young people feel 바카라사이트y have no control because 바카라사이트y are going to get into mountains of debt if 바카라사이트y go to university,¡± he said yesterday during an appearance on programme.

¡°We do want a radical offer on tuition fees because 바카라사이트 future of our young people - something totally absent from [last week¡¯s] Budget - is a massive issue that our country faces,¡± he added.

In December last year, Liam Byrne, 바카라사이트 shadow universities, science and skills minister, said that Labour¡¯s election manifesto for 2015 could include a ¡°long-term shift to a graduate tax¡±. ?

Currently, Labour policy is to cut tuition fees from a maximum of ?9,000 a year to ?6,000, although Mr Byrne said at 바카라사이트 time that this ¡°is what we would do if we were in government today¡±.

The National Union of Students has backed a graduate tax in 바카라사이트 past, but 바카라사이트 vice-chancellors¡¯ body Universities UK has said that it could not support such a policy.

Mr Miliband argued for a graduate tax and an end to fees when campaigning to become Labour leader in 2010.

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