division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [6th Allotted Day] &#8212; Higher and Further Education
motion: <p class="" pid="b.203.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.203.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes with concern that September 2012 marks the first term where students will face the trebling of student fees to &#163;9,000 a year; further notes that barriers are also being put up for vocational routes, with direct Government support for learners cut for level 3 courses and above, which includes apprenticeships and access courses to university, and with Higher Education-style loans being introduced, costing learners up to &#163;4,000 a year; and calls on the Government to change course and, as a first step, reduce tuition fees to &#163;6,000, funded by reversing the corporation tax cut for banks and requiring graduates earning over &#163;65,000 a year to pay higher interest rates on their student loans.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.213.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from &#8220;House&#8221; to the end of the Question and add:</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.213.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;congratulates all those who have recently achieved their educational qualifications; notes the number of full-time higher education students in 2012 is expected to be higher than in any year under the previous administration; believes that the pupil premium, which is designed to raise the attainment of pupils from low-income households, represents a powerful mechanism for widening participation in higher education; welcomes the increased spending on widening participation in higher education, including the higher maintenance grants, the National Scholarship Programme and the extension of tuition loans to part-time students; further notes the Institute for Fiscal Studies&#8217; recent finding that the new student finance system &#8216;is actually more progressive than its predecessor: the poorest 29 per cent of graduates will be better off under the new system&#8217;; supports the extra information provided to prospective students through the student finance tour and the Key Information Set; further supports the efforts being made to ensure the best possible match between students and institutions, with one-quarter of all undergraduate places removed from centralised number controls; and congratulates the Government for working with employers to deliver an unprecedented increase in apprenticeships, with 800,000 new starts since September 2010.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="b.249.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">Question put accordingly (<phrase class="standing-order" code="31(2)" pwmotiontext="yes">Standing Order No. 31(2)</phrase>), That the original words stand part of the Question.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.249.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b.249.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 224, Noes 285.</p>