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‘We’re worried about a race to the bottom’

Gareth Thomas, the shadow universities minister, talks to Research Fortnight Today about the holes he sees in the government’s higher education reforms.

Major changes to higher education are being implemented, yet you personally have been fairly quiet—at least in the media. Why?

We have highlighted our opposition to a number of aspects of the government’s proposal. Firstly, the decision to treble tuition fees was unfair, unnecessary and unsustainable.

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