Tuition Fees (No. 2)

EDM number 370 in 1997-98, proposed by Lembit Opik on 29/10/1997.

That this House notes with grave concern the current Government proposals to end the principle of free tuition for full-time students in higher education and that similar proposals were considered and rejected by the Conservative Government in 1984; is appalled that these plans were not mentioned in the Government's General Election manifesto; believes that the end of free tuition heralds the triumph of inherited privilege over academic merit; commends the National Union of Students in leading and co-ordinating the massive public opposition to the proposals; and calls on the Government to abandon their plans for a poll tax on students.

This motion has been signed by a total of 71 MPs.