Comments on: When is a graduate tax not a graduate tax?

By: Harriet

Harriet — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:38:22 +0000

RT @AaronPorter: article for @LeftFootFwd, 'When is a graduate tax, not a graduate tax?': http://bit.ly/aaafV1

By: Steve Woodfield

Steve Woodfield — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:57:55 +0000

RT @WilliamCB: RT @AaronPorter 'When is a graduate tax not a graduate tax?': http://bit.ly/aaafV1 < NUS finally gets the message, sort of

By: William CullerneBown

William CullerneBown — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:52:14 +0000

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By: http://twitter.com/WilliamCB

http://twitter.com/WilliamCB — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:46:51 +0000

“When is a graduate tax not a graduate tax?” Good question. Your answer seems to be, when it’s not a “progressive” graduate tax and more specifically, when it’s not part of a market in higher education. Those are fine positions for a progressive organisation such as NUS to take, but they are not actually intrinsic to a graduate tax at all. So it’s not a very strong argument, is it?

More importantly, even 10 days after the event and with access to ministers, NUS does not seem to have got to the bottom of what the government’s current position on all this is. Rather than saying, “many see Dr Cable’s exploration of a graduate tax as simply a rebranding exercise to mollify Liberal Democrat backbenchers”, why aren’t you telling your members what the reality of the coalition’s current position is? For this, see http://bit.ly/bzhfjV

By: Samantha Kennedy

Samantha Kennedy — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:01:13 +0000

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By: Jo Caulfield

Jo Caulfield — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:53:52 +0000

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By: Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:42:20 +0000

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By: Paul Duxbury

Paul Duxbury — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:40:23 +0000

RT @AaronPorter: article for @LeftFootFwd, 'When is a graduate tax, not a graduate tax?': http://bit.ly/aaafV1

By: Aaron Porter

Aaron Porter — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:39:00 +0000

article for @LeftFootFwd, 'When is a graduate tax, not a graduate tax?': http://bit.ly/aaafV1

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:07:53 +0000

I’m not sure if I like the idea of a graduate tax or not yet. I’m assuming Aaron has more details than are actually public, as most of the talk about the graduate tax has been based on widely varying assumptions about how it would be implemented. So how anything has become clear over the last week, I really don’t see. I’m waiting for some cold hard details rather than speculation and varying briefings on what a graduate tax would mean. Not the article I’d hope to see from the President of NUS really.