My Lords, I, too, support the amendment. We need to have a status of title that puts universities and higher education in an elevated place in our society. We know that “students” comes trailing clouds of all sorts of other implications that may not be appropriate. Education and universities are serious, hard-core activities on which this country depends, and they deserve respect.
Higher Education and Research Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Bakewell
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 6 March 2017.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Higher Education and Research Bill.
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