Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Friday, December 10, 2010

More on the UK issue

Kevin James, who teaches at Albany (CA) High School, points out in his Comparative Government blog, that another aspect of the rise in university tuition is that the Liberal Democrats promised not to do just that.

Liberal Democrats Break Pledge, Vote to Triple University Tuition
The Liberal Democrats who voted for the tuition increase violated a pledge, signed by all Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates in advance of last May's general election, not to support any proposed increase in university tuition. Indeed, the Liberal Democrats' election manifesto committed the party to eliminating tuition at English and Welsh universities…

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