Tuition Fees
I read with interest Mark Eriera-Guyer's letter (BFP 10/12/10) on Tuition Fees. Residents will not have forgotten that before he was a Green Parliamentary Candidate, he was a Labour PC supporting the party that introduced Tuition Fees so he has has undergone quite a change of view himself. He also mentioned the abolition of the Educational Maintenance Allowance. This was a typical nanny state Labour measure in which the government took tax off all of us and give it back to pupils staying on in education whether their parents needed it or not. It was one of the reasons taxpayers debt had risen to £160 billion under Labour. It has been replaced, not abolished, with the Learning Support Grant given to students from families with lower incomes to ensure they don't feel the need to leave school and get a job, but stay on to gain a better chance for themselves in the future.
