Labour sets out ‘direction of travel’ for university policy

Labour is aiming to recreate a “delicate balance” between universities, the state, and students—reversing the coalition’s choice to “get out of the business of higher education”, the party’s shadow universities minister, Shabana Mahmood, has said.

Setting out the party’s “direction of travel” at an annual party conference fringe event on the future of higher education on 2 October, Mahmood hinted that the party is rethinking the university funding balance between student tuition fees and state funding.