George Osborne once called university tuition fees “a tax on learning” and “very unfair"
George Osborne once called university tuition fees a tax on learning and very unfair - before the Tories trebled them to £9,000 a year.
The revelation has come to light after recent Manchester music graduate, Rosy Williams, posted a letter onto Facebook that she received from the politician in 2003 in which he sought to address concerns surrounding a fee increase...
Mr Osborne - then just MP for Tatton - wrote: When I was at university 10 years ago, my education was free.
Since then, the Government has imposed fees which mean that most students today pay more than £1,000 a year to go to university. Now they want to go further and introduce so-called top-up fees, which will mean students paying £3,000 a year for their education. To my mind, this is a tax on learning and is very unfair.
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