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		<title>Crash course in HE finance, by Stephen Court</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/07/crash-course-in-he-finance-by-stephen-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Court</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next month will bring the moment of truth for the record number of university applicants this year. On 19 August hundreds of thousands of A-level students find out their exam results. <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/07/crash-course-in-he-finance-by-stephen-court/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>All the young dudes by Stephen Court</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/05/all-the-young-dudes-by-stephen-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 00:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Court</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STEPHEN COURT  Young people might not have carried the news in this election but there is enough political feeling there to make the next generation of voters a vital constituency  <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/05/all-the-young-dudes-by-stephen-court/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden fees, by Stephen Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Court</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University top-up fees were a very awkward electoral issue for the Labour government in the 2005 general election. So it is not surprising that in the present election campaign, fees have been kept at bay <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/04/3544/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>University challenge, by Stephen Court</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/03/university-challenge-by-stephen-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Court</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STEPHEN COURT l  These are uncertain times for universities. Today’s announcement by the Higher Education Funding Council for England of its recurrent funding  <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/03/university-challenge-by-stephen-court/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Do cuts spell doomsday for higher education? By Stephen Court</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/02/do-cuts-spell-doomsday-for-higher-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Court</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STEPHEN COURT &#124; Some commentators are presenting a doomsday scenario for higher education. Thirty institutions may not survive, suggests one. Recently announced cuts will bring the sector to its knees in six months, says another <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/02/do-cuts-spell-doomsday-for-higher-education/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Access denied, by Stephen Court</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/01/access-denied/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Court</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STEPHEN COURT  &#124;  Spending cuts to higher education will hamper efforts to increase social mobility. So it might be time to ask employers to pay their fair share <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/01/access-denied/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Higher education&#8217;s belt is tightened, by Stephen Court</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/01/higher-educations-belt-is-tightened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Court</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three days before Christmas is a pretty good time to have a bad news day on funding. With most people either at office parties or out doing some final gift shopping, few will hear the sound of belts being firmly tightened <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/01/higher-educations-belt-is-tightened/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Higher sense of freedom, by Stephen Court</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/11/higher-sense-of-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Court</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STEPHEN COURT &#124; Does university freedom matter? Universities in the UK have, in theory, freedom – or more precisely, autonomy - from political interference to decide which students to enrol, what to teach, what degrees to award, and what to research <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/11/higher-sense-of-freedom/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Frozen assets, by Stephen Court</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/10/frozen-assets-by-stephen-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Court</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STEPHEN COURT &#124; As a teenager, the shadow chancellor changed his name from Gideon Osborne to George Osborne. He may need to change it again to Samson to give him strength to cope with the hostility likely to come his way if indeed he gets to impose a pay freeze for public sector workers earning more than £18,000. <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/10/frozen-assets-by-stephen-court/"></a>]]></description>
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		<title>CBI suffers from physics envy, by Stephen Court</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/09/cbi-suffers-from-physics-envy/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/09/cbi-suffers-from-physics-envy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Court</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STEPHEN COURT  &#124;  The CBI – which brands itself ‘the voice of business’ –  is sounding more and more like a political party. Today it published 'New government in action' – its manifesto for whoever wins the next election <a href="http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/09/cbi-suffers-from-physics-envy/"></a>]]></description>
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