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Tuition fees set to rise again under new proposals
The NUS has called it the "latest in a long line of disappointing revelations".
David Willetts
The marketised core of the government’s universities plan is rotten
David Barclay, president of the Oxford University Student Union, says David Willetts's plans are rotten to the core, and will teach students the price of everything and value of nothing.
Cameron, Clarke, Dorries, Willetts… The Tories keep screwing up on gender equality
Why is it that Conservatives have such a problem with gender equality and women's issues? The last two months alone have featured a litany of misteps by Tories.
The rich should not be allowed to buy their way into the best universities
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, warns against David Willetts's plans to allow the rich to buy their way into the best universities.
Willetts must learn from America’s mistakes over for-profit universities
UCU general secretary Sally Hunt discusses the worrying record of for-profit universities and the even more worrying prospect of David Willetts' helping them expand in the UK.
‘Feminism trumps egalitarianism’ only if Willetts’s soundbite trumps evidence
David Willetts's soundbite that 'feminism trumped egalitarianism' is refuted by Declan Gaffney, with analysis showing how both work together for social mobility.