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The former business secretary and the last person in the previous Labour government to have responsibility for universities, Lord Mandelson, has cautioned the Labour party not to weaken UK university funding by announcing unfunded cuts in tuition fees. Lord Mandelson gave these remarks just days before Ed Miliband is due to set out his policy on university funding.
In his speech to Universities UK on Friday, Lord Mandelson explained that higher tuition fees had benefited universities and “participation levels have risen from every level of British society, including the most disadvantaged. Higher fee levels have not undermined this.” According to Lord Mandelson, “these opportunities must continue to expand but we will only do so if, in this more fiscally tight environment, we sustain the flow of funding into universities from all the sources available.”
Ed Miliband is anticipated to lay out his policy on university funding during the week. The Labour leader has previously argued in favour of reducing the cap on fees from £9,000 to £6,000, but has so far failed to pay for the £2bn-£2.5bn a year in cost. Quite noticeably, Labour had earlier opposed the coalition’s move to raise the cap to £9,000, but now party aides say they never pledged to reduce fees as soon as they got back into government.
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