Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
Just idly browsing through the BBC report on tuition fees, when I saw this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43031541
'But this is about politics and this is a subject which has a remarkable track record for sudden switches.
It is easy to forget that in 2005 Theresa May was a shadow minister going into a general election with a Conservative manifesto promising to scrap all tuition fees.
In the previous year, it had been Labour that had been on the ropes over plans to increase fees to £3,000 per year.
In the general election, the shadow education secretary, Tim Collins, lead the Tory campaign to end fees.
He lost his seat to a youngster called Tim Farron and his education brief went to another newcomer, David Cameron.
Whatever happened to them?'
I must have known at the time that this was Tory policy, as I was working in HE, but it seems hard to credit just how dramatically the parties' positions on tuition fees have changed since then.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43031541
'But this is about politics and this is a subject which has a remarkable track record for sudden switches.
It is easy to forget that in 2005 Theresa May was a shadow minister going into a general election with a Conservative manifesto promising to scrap all tuition fees.
In the previous year, it had been Labour that had been on the ropes over plans to increase fees to £3,000 per year.
In the general election, the shadow education secretary, Tim Collins, lead the Tory campaign to end fees.
He lost his seat to a youngster called Tim Farron and his education brief went to another newcomer, David Cameron.
Whatever happened to them?'
I must have known at the time that this was Tory policy, as I was working in HE, but it seems hard to credit just how dramatically the parties' positions on tuition fees have changed since then.