Higher Education and Research Bill

My Lords, I have one amendment in this group, Amendment 53. Much of what the noble Baroness, Lady...

My Lords, after the excellent first day in Committee, when we heard from chancellors and former c...

My Lords, I shall address the point about part-time and lifelong learning, and speak from my own ...

I welcome this brief debate. It is crucial that we should turn our attention to different forms o...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness’s amendment. This is a particularly important issue which,...

My Lords, I support this amendment and Amendments 32, 41, 46 and 172, to the latter of which my n...

My Lords, I support these amendments, in particular for the reasons stated by the noble Baroness,...

My Lords, I support these amendments and will elaborate on what I said at Second Reading about th...

My Lords, I associate myself with these amendments and support what has been said so far. I parti...

My Lords, I shall speak in support of Amendments 41, 46 and 172, which all relate to part-time an...

My Lords, I support all the amendments and in particular the comments that my noble friend has ju...

My Lords, I also would like to support this amendment and all the amendments in the group, one of...

My Lords, I will make a short plea for something that has not been mentioned so far. Most people ...

My Lords, this has been a good debate focusing on three main strands. First, the dire state into ...

My Lords, the Government wholeheartedly agree that part-time education, distance learning and adu...

I am sorry to intervene, but while the reasons may be complex, can the Minister give us some idea...

I do not want to go precisely into that at the moment except to say only that the Government cont...

I thank my noble friend for giving way. Surely one of the reasons is the appalling lack of broadb...

My Lords, I said that these are complex matters and, as I said, I do not intend to lead the Commi...

Does the Minister not accept that one of the problems is the attitude to part-time learning, some...

The noble Lord is right. It certainly is not second rate, but I must say again that many of the o...

I assume from what the Minister said he will not accept any of these amendments. As someone who h...

I think I have done that. The whole point is I want to avoid placing undue restrictions on the Of...

Is the noble Viscount aware that he is committing a bit of a solecism? The Bill centres on making...

I do not know about that, my Lords, but I reiterate that I take all remarks made this afternoon e...

My Lords, I am very grateful for what my noble friend said about my Amendment 53, but he prompts ...

I thank my noble friend for that. Indeed, credit accumulation or credit transfer, however it migh...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords from all around the Chamber who have spoken in this short debat...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

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My Lords, this is day 2 of our Committee proceedings. It might be interesting to reflect for a se...

My Lords, my name is attached to Amendments 14 and 16. I thank the Minister for the amendments ta...

My Lords, I will briefly comment on the very interesting interventions we have already had, which...

Might I use an example to try to answer the question that the noble Lord raised? I have amendment...

It is certainly the case that mainstreaming can be a euphemism for a solitary and nasty death, de...

My Lords, I am afraid that my comments on fair access reflect my general worries about the Bill, ...

My Lords, I hope that we are not going to lose the main point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Br...

My Lords, I have a couple of perhaps slightly random points to make. Access and participation go ...

My Lords, I did not mean to speak on this part of the Bill, and was absent at Second Reading, but...

My Lords, I would like to make a couple of comments on what has been said so far. I want to assoc...

My Lords, I am grateful for the amendments grouped here on access and participation, and follow t...

My Lords, I did not speak at Second Reading, so perhaps I should begin by declaring some non-fina...

My Lords, I raise an issue that I think we have not spoken about under the important heading of a...

My Lords, I should have said at Second Reading that I am a member of the Council for the Defence ...

My Lords, I wish briefly to reiterate a point made by the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, about primar...

My Lords, I want very briefly to endorse the comments of the noble Baroness, Lady Brown of Cambri...

Before the noble Lord sits down, of course, he and other Cross-Benchers are absolutely right abou...

I certainly welcome that, but it still leaves open the question of the accumulated debt.

My Lords, we are effectively talking about the criteria that will be used by the relevant offices...

My Lords, may I request that the Minister reassures us that, when we talk about access, the Bill ...

My Lords, before I address this group of amendments, I wish to respond to the opening remarks of ...

Will anybody be responsible for monitoring wider trends in labour markets in the context of highe...

I understand that the Director for Fair Access and Participation will have the right to find thes...

I asked a question about Amendment 27 and the fact that when the Director for Fair Access and Par...

It would be better to write a letter to clarify that in detail.

I asked a specific question about the transfer of students, using their acquired learning, on to ...

May I correct that? It may be true that this is not common but it is not true that the vast major...

I would like to see the evidence for it.

That was a very interesting short debate but perhaps I may reassure noble Lords that this issue h...

I thank those who have participated in this debate and in particular the noble Baroness, Lady Bri...

Perhaps I may clarify that. It is simply that I am listening and reflecting at this stage, and I ...

They were the Minister’s words, not mine, but I hear what he says. I hope that he is taking accou...

It is not simply about the participation of people who come from a disadvantaged background and b...

I thank the noble Lord. That is very helpful and extremely interesting if we are talking about gi...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

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Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

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Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

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I think that I can be relatively brief in speaking to the amendments in this group. They are larg...

My Lords, I quite understand the desire of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, for greater transparen...

I thank the noble Viscount for his response. I have one quick question about the costs of members...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

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My Lords, this group has one amendment in my name and two in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady...

My Lords, I support this amendment and will speak to Amendments 508A and 509A in my name. The Off...

My Lords, I support these amendments. The Bill will set up two very powerful new bodies in the Of...

My Lords, your Lordships will be aware that in Amendment 509 the noble Lord, Lord Smith of Finsbu...

My Lords, I remind the Committee of the interests I have previously declared. Like the noble and ...

My Lords, I very much agree with the proposition behind the amendments—the importance of collabor...

My Lords, I will follow what my noble friend Lord Willetts just said—but first perhaps I should s...

My Lords, I support this amendment and Amendment 509A. I do not want to repeat the points that ha...

My Lords, I appreciate all the contributions that noble Lords have made to this short debate. The...

My Lords, I am grateful to those Members of your Lordships’ House who have participated in this s...

Does this not identify one of the central problems we face with the Bill? We have very clear and ...

I could not have put it better myself. I agree entirely. Having analysed it so successfully there...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

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Moved by

Lord Sutherland of Houndwood

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My Lords, this amendment has two themes: transparency and accountability. I have to say to my col...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 28, 48 and 465 in this group, which have nothing at all to d...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, and will speak to A...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, and the noble Baro...

My Lords, in supporting the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, perhaps I could give the Com...

My Lords, I support the amendments of my noble friend Lord Lucas. This is probably the first shot...

My Lords, we are deeply grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Waldegrave, for his remarkable contribut...

My Lords, I also express my strong, unequivocal support for my noble friend Lord Lucas and his am...

My Lords, in supporting the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, I cannot hope to match the...

My Lords, many noble Lords have spoken very eloquently about this matter. I add my support to the...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Waldegrave, referred to what happened to him in 1981. I say to him...

Is it not a factor that the Home Office does not have proper data on which students go to which u...

I cannot speak for the Home Office on the care it takes in collection of data. Others will know b...

My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Sutherland of Houndwood and...

My Lords, I am pleased that what has come to the fore in this debate has been the concern of this...

My Lords, at the risk of lowering the tone after my noble friend Lord Judd’s speech, I say that I...

My Lords, I suspect that the noble Lord, Lord Sutherland, was quite relieved when the noble Lord,...

My Lords, before I turn to the issues raised in this group on international students—and as the n...

My Lords—

My Lords, perhaps I can just sign off on my amendments before the noble Lord, Lord Sutherland, br...

My Lords, as I was about to say a moment ago, this is a strange position that I find myself in. I...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

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Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

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My Lords, it may be for the convenience of the Committee if I explain that the scurrying around h...