Labour Research - Free tuition Policy

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HIGHER EDUCATION

Labour believes education should be free, and we will restore this principle. No one should be put off educating themselves for lack of money or through fear of debt. 
There is a real fear that students are being priced out of university education. Last year saw the steepest fall in university applications for 30 years.
Since the Conservatives came to power, university tuition fees have been trebled to over £9,000 a year, and maintenance grants have been abolished and replaced with loans.
The average student now graduates from university, and starts their working life, with debts of £44,000.
Labour will reintroduce maintenance grants for university students, and we will abolish university tuition fees.
University tuition is free in many northern European countries, and under a Labour government, it will be free here too." - Labour Party (2016)

The story we want to follow is labours' promise to abolish tuition fees,  this sounds great for many students who likely will leave University in large amounts of debt, however, we want to gather more information as to where this money would come from and how it would impact people other than students. Our aim would be to get an interview with a labour representative and

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To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Simon Lawrence and I am a second year student at the University of Creative Arts, studying Television Production B.A. (Hons) at Maidstone Television Studios in Kent. 

I am currently studying on a TV News Production module and am researching a story about student tuition fees for HE, as we are producing a short package (2 to 2.5 minutes duration) for this module.  

To this end, I would like to inquire whether it would be possible to film a short interview with a relevant/local labour representative regarding the Labour Party's policy on Higher Education/University fees.  We are due to submit this piece of work by 26th October, therefore we would ideally shoot this within the next three weeks.  We are happy to travel to a convenient location within the South East.

I look forward to hearing from you - please could you let me know who I can talk to regarding this at your earliest convenience.  I can be contacted at :

Simongeorgelawrence@gmail.com or call 07800 935793.

Yours faithfully,

Simon Lawrence

Bibliography

Labour Party (2016). Labour Party Manifesto. [online] p.43. Available at: http://www.labour.org.uk/page/-/Images/manifesto-2017/Labour%20Manifesto%202017.pdf [Accessed 5 Oct. 2017].

The Guardian. 2017. Labour’s scrapping of tuition fees isn’t the progressive measure it appears | Frances Ryan | Opinion | The Guardian. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/22/labour-scrap-tuition-fees-not-progressive-measure-early-years-education. [Accessed 05 October 2017].

HuffPost UK. 2017. Labour Manifesto 2017 Costings: How Jeremy Corbyn Will Pay For His ‘Radical’ Plans | HuffPost UK. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-manifesto-corbyn-tax-renationalisation_uk_591adba1e4b05dd15f0b0e13. [Accessed 05 October 201