“A Labour MP has gone on the record claiming that the Government is conspiring with the Conservative Party to ensure that the issue of undergraduate tuition fees remains off the political agenda in the run-up to the next general election. Ian Gibson, MP for Norwich North and a veteran anti-fees campaigner, said that ‘nods and winks’ between the two parties have prevented fees from becoming an election issue. The result was that the electorate and the university sector were being denied an ‘important choice’, as was the case in 1997 when Lord Dearing’s review of higher education heralded the introduction of tuition fees, he said …” (more)
[Zoë Corbyn, Times Higher Education, 20 March]