Public Services
IFS shoots coalition’s deadweight EMA cuts argument to pieces
Using a new fangled technique the IFS yesterday finally shot to pieces the coalition’s arguments in favour of abolishing Education Maintenance Allowance.
Cuts to NHS and social care services likely, says health select committee
The likelihood of cuts to health and social care services, and the destabilising effect of the Coalition’s market-driven NHS reforms, were endorsed today in a remarkable health select committee report. The committee, with a coalition majority and chaired by ex-Tory health secretary Stephen Dorrell, was reporting on implications and risks from the Spending Review.
Evan Harris: “If you want to get rid of fees vote more Lib Dems into power”
Former Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris has made the extraordinary claim that to get rid of fees "the answer is to vote more liberal democrats into power".
Tuition fees backlash gains momentum on the right
UKIP's Gawain Towler talks exclusively to Left Foot Forward about his party's position on tuition fees.
The real nature of the EMA debate
Anthony Painter examines the truth behind the numbers in the Educational Maintenance Allowance debate.
Who’s misleading whom?
The tuition fee row will hit its peak tonight, after which students across England will have to face up to the fact they will pay fees amounting to £27,000.