Mark Leach

Oh for crying out loud.

With Labour resigned to frozen fees and a fixed envelope of spending, Mark Leach goes on the hunt for wriggle room at its conference in Liverpool

Back in July, Jayne Bryant MS, the chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee in the Senedd, sent a letter to Universities Wales.

The Scottish Conservatives have been on the offensive again over the weekend over international students.

When the Westminster government annually uprates the amounts in maintenance support that students from England can borrow, it uses a measure of inflation.

Home of the higher education debate

A big majority for Labour at the coming general election could give the new government cover to raise fees as part of a package to help universities get to safety

In less than a week's time, the duties on students’ unions and universities under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act kick in.

Tomorrow, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to agree to above-inflation pay rises for public sector workers.

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