Comments on: Listed buildings and oh, more on fees… http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/listed-buildings-and-oh-more-on-fees Plaid Assembly Member for South Wales West including Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot and Swansea Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: chrispaul http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/listed-buildings-and-oh-more-on-fees/comment-page-1#comment-2784 chrispaul Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:54:43 +0000 http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/listed-buildings-and-oh-more-on-fees#comment-2784 there has been a lot of well deserved criticism over the Plaid ministers' position on this matter. It is a shame as until this issue cropped up I think the leadership had walked a pretty good line in circumstances far from perfect. I guess at least the differences in opinion between party and minsiters will not let the issue fade- and in subsequent terms Plaid will be able to reintorduce the measure. the wider issue of higher fees across the UK needs to be addressed. As a lower middle class/working class teenager I, or many of my friends, would not have gone to uni had the levels of debt being discussed been likely. Access, social mobility, and ultimately the availabailty of skills in the workforce will all suffer as fees are pushed ever higher. there has been a lot of well deserved criticism over the Plaid ministers’ position on this matter. It is a shame as until this issue cropped up I think the leadership had walked a pretty good line in circumstances far from perfect. I guess at least the differences in opinion between party and minsiters will not let the issue fade- and in subsequent terms Plaid will be able to reintorduce the measure.

the wider issue of higher fees across the UK needs to be addressed. As a lower middle class/working class teenager I, or many of my friends, would not have gone to uni had the levels of debt being discussed been likely. Access, social mobility, and ultimately the availabailty of skills in the workforce will all suffer as fees are pushed ever higher.

]]> By: leigh richards http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/listed-buildings-and-oh-more-on-fees/comment-page-1#comment-2776 leigh richards Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:29:25 +0000 http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/listed-buildings-and-oh-more-on-fees#comment-2776 no question bethan that the coalition govt's decision to introduce top up fees in wales could not have been made at a worse time - and may open the floodgates to some deeply troubling consequences!!! Chief among them being the likelehood that welsh students will not be able to afford to attend their own universities! That this decision appears to have been taken by people who in their student days did not have to pay any fees and who enjoyed the benefit of student grants makes this decision all the more sickening and unjustifiable! This is hardly the progressive agenda in wales we were promised or expect from the coalition. Thankfully in yourself and leanne wood we appear to have some AMs of principle at least! no question bethan that the coalition govt’s decision to introduce top up fees in wales could not have been made at a worse time – and may open the floodgates to some deeply troubling consequences!!!

Chief among them being the likelehood that welsh students will not be able to afford to attend their own universities!

That this decision appears to have been taken by people who in their student days did not have to pay any fees and who enjoyed the benefit of student grants makes this decision all the more sickening and unjustifiable!

This is hardly the progressive agenda in wales we were promised or expect from the coalition. Thankfully in yourself and leanne wood we appear to have some AMs of principle at least!

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