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  • Programe Lead at the Economic Change Unit

  • Halford Mackinder Professor in Geography at the University of Oxford

Jubilee 2022: Defending free tuition

Anyone advocating for the abolition of tuition fees must address the issue of outstanding student debt, for both practical and ethical reasons. This is the rationale behind Jubilee 2022: a proposed cap on maximum tuition fee loan repayments for first-time, undergraduate degrees, explained in our paper Jubilee 2022: Writing off the student debt.

The initial Jubilee 2022 proposal received a lot of feedback, some of which will be helpful in informing future work in this area. Much of the feedback, however, focussed not on debt cancellation per se, but on the worthiness of abolishing tuition fees in the first place. In this paper, Danny Dorling and Michael Davies set out the case for funding higher education not from tuition fees or ‘graduate contribution systems’, but through progressive, general taxation.

PEF Provocation – Market versus planning

The Progressive Economy Forum put together a panel for The World Transformed festival, held in Brighton in September 2021, to discuss ‘bold new proposals and policies’ that the left should

Social care

A Progressive Plan for Care

The pandemic has exposed how dependent on care we are not only as individuals, but as a society. But our care system, already struggling well before the outbreak of the

Comments on the government’s new economic direction and a job guarantee

The following is a transcript of PEF Council member Lord Skidelsky’s speech in the House of Lords on 9th January 2020 commenting on the economic direction of the United Kingdom’s Conservative government and the case for introducing a public sector job guarantee as an automatic stabiliser.

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