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  Opposition Day - [5th allotted day] - Higher Education - ELQ funding
  
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  The original Opposition motion, on the Government's plan to withdraw HEFCE funding from courses taught to students who already possess an equivalent or higher level qualification, read:
  
  <blockquote>That this House is concerned that the Government's decision to withdraw funding from institutions for equivalent or lower qualification students will have a disproportionate impact on the part-time sector in general and on specific institutions such as Birkbeck and the Open University; and urges the Government to consider ways in which it can minimise the damage this measure will do to lifelong learning and the delivery of the Leitch agenda objectives.</blockquote>
  
  This vote is part of a destructive amendment manoeuvre.  This vote is on whether the text of this original motion should remain, and the majority No vote deletes the text of the original motion.  <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2008-01-08&number=37">The following vote</a> substitutes entirely different text.
  
  
  
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