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IoS letters, emails & online postings (12 December 2010)
Sunday, 12 December 2010
The Tories and Lib Dems justify massive cuts to higher education and increases in tuition fees as aids to the economic recovery, achieved via spending cuts.
Letters: Perspectives on schools
Friday, 10 December 2010
Letters: Perspectives on WikiLeaks
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Letters: University funding
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Steve Richards is right ("Only Tories win from the student saga", 7 December). The policy argument over university funding has not been won – or even properly aired.
Letters: Tuition fees
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Students already pay enough backAs I approach the latter part of my working life I reflect on the impact of the 300 grant and no fees that allowed this working-class boy to go to university in the 1960s.
Letters: University fees will hit the best workers hardest
Monday, 6 December 2010
I heard with deep despair of the proposal to pay university fees for a year for the poorest students. What a lesson that if families stop struggling and cut hours or give up work their children will have less debt. What a shocking message! What about all those who struggle to do the right thing but never get well off? They are crushed again.
IoS letters, emails & online postings (5 December 2010)
Sunday, 5 December 2010
John Rentoul suggests government child poverty targets are arbitrary or unachievable, but they have been achieved by other European nations, so there is no reason we cannot achieve them, too ("The right to speak truth unto prejudice", 28 November).
Letters: Can bid failure help restore sanity to English football?
Saturday, 4 December 2010
The failure of our World Cup bid may finally bring reforms that restore sanity to English football (report, 3 December).
Letters: Wikileaks saga shows that no data is safe
Friday, 3 December 2010
The tidal wave of revelations from Wikileaks demonstrates once again the impossibility of securing large, centralised government databases.
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