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  • Halford Mackinder Professor in Geography at the University of Oxford

  • Programe Lead at the Economic Change Unit

Jubilee 2022: Writing off the student debt

Labour is committed to ending tuition fees from the moment it is elected. This commitment to educational justice and quality is laudable, and will be a step towards ensuring our universities act as institutions for the public good, not profit-maximisers.

However, Labour as of yet has no policy on what to do about outstanding student debt. It cannot face the next election telling young people that if they are unlucky enough to have started university the day before a Labour government is elected, they will still have to pay off a huge loan to cover their fees. This creates a dangerous cliff edge – not least for English universities, as it would make sense for students to defer entry until after a general election.

In this publication, Professor Danny Dorling and Michael Davies propose a cap on maximum tuition fee loan repayments for first-time, undergraduate degrees for students who enrolled between 2012 and the abolition of tuition fees. It might be called Jubilee 2022 – named after the year in which it would be implemented, if the next General Election is held as scheduled in that year and Labour win.

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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