

Stephanie Smith
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@PolicySteph
Deputy Director of Policy @RussellGroup. Chair of school governors @TheBridgeMAT. All tweets in a personal capacity.





Just to be really clear if you asked me "Is it worth raising max tuition fees by 3.1% to get a 3.1% rise in maintenance loans (both now confirmed)?". My answer is YES. Tuition fee rises don't effect most 1st time students (unless so wealthy they opt not to get loans), they affect graduates and the only ones who will pay more due to the rise are mid-high to high earning graduates (and only small % more). The terrible degradation of living loans has hit those from low income backgrounds - who can't afford to live while they study - and thus social mobility. So a rise is important though more is needed to catch up with the huge past years real term cuts. Explanations below.



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Scientific research needs robust government backing, not Treasury penny-pinching | Andre Geim and Nancy Rothwell theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I wholeheartedly agree. Cutting U.K. R&D funding in today’s highly competitive and indeed dangerous world would be nothing short of idiotic.


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Indeed - a nice reminder in a week when many of us @RussellGroup @UniversitiesUK and key research funders have signed up to a letter from @sciencecampaign arguing to sustain public R&D spending in the U.K. - economic evidence demonstrates the impact it has on productivity growth.

Concerns about rumoured cuts to the science budget continue with a letter to The Times today, with dozens of high-profile figures speaking out


