Member

Amendment 4 also deals with universities. Why just universities? What about colleges, vocational training and other institutions? Is it just because so many in this House are chancellors or senior members of universities that they have forgotten? What is the Government’s rhetoric? It is all about how we need to improve vocational education in order to improve our productivity and all the rest. What about CTCs, pioneered by my noble friend Lord Baker? Why are they to be saddled with these additional costs? It is not just universities. The noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, spoke with great eloquence and made the case for universities, but no part of education should be subject to these additional costs. While we may want a simpler system, the simple answer is not to do this in the first place.