I have always thought that education should be free. For Britain to become the template of modernity in a fast-changing globalised world, we need a highly skilled and educated workforce. So asking young people to take on huge amounts of debt to help secure our collective future seems unfair. Asking them to take on huge amounts of debt to pay for the bloated pay of senior university staff is therefore entirely unacceptable.
That is why I resigned from the advisory board of the University of Bath yesterday. As the MP for Bristol North West I represent many current and future Bath students and their families, which is why I held the ex officio role to begin with. Students take on tens of thousands of pounds of debt to pay for their edu…
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