division_name: Debate on the Address &#8212; Education, Skills and Training
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b542.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;but respectfully regret that the Gracious Speech contained proposals to enable further increases in tuition fees; believe that there should be no further increases in tuition fees; and further believe that no good or outstanding school should be forced to become an academy.&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b542.4/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;After 23 years of careful thought about what they would like to do in power, and the answer is nothing.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b543.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Government is in total paralysis, because the only thing that matters to the Government now is the saving of the Prime Minister&#8217;s career&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b543.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;winning the referendum.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b543.3/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Government has nothing to do, nothing to say and thinks nothing.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b560.6/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;clearly didn&#8217;t find a sustainable way forward for the financing of higher education&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b560.6/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a bit of a blot on Labour&#8217;s copybook&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b561.2/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;explore the possibility of introducing formal schemes to allow international higher education students graduating from Scottish further and higher education institutions to remain in Scotland and contribute to economic activity for a defined period of time.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b561.2/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Reintroducing a post study work route in Scotland would benefit both Scottish economic growth and business development, as well as enriching the learning experience for all students, by attracting more international students to Scotland.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b561.2/23" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;proposals will be brought forward for a British Bill of Rights.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b561.2/26" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;These rights would be based on those set out in the European Convention on Human Rights, while also taking into account our common law tradition.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b561.2/29" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;there is no hint of any developed thinking about how the perceived shortcomings of the HRA ought to be addressed, or of how reform in this area would be reconciled with the UK&#8217;s remaining a party to the ECHR.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b561.2/32" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Revising the Human Rights Act can only be done by the UK Parliament, but we will consult fully before bringing forward proposals.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b561.2/34" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Under Devolution Guidance Note 10 (DGN10), when UK legislation will alter the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament or the Executive Competence of the Scottish Ministers the consent of the Scottish Parliament is needed. Repeal and replacement of the Human Rights Act 1998 would in our view, require the amendment of the Scotland Act 1998 in those respects which would affect the competences of both the Parliament and Scottish Ministers. Any change to the Scotland Act concerning the Human Rights Act 1998 which affects the competence of the Parliament or the Scottish Ministers will in terms of DGN10 require the consent of the Scottish Parliament.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b561.2/37" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the credit belongs to the man who...spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b569.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it will mean that good and outstanding schools can still be made to convert, regardless of the professional judgement of school leaders, the opposition of parents and the best interests of local communities.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b569.4/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Targeted support is what&#8217;s needed, rather than forced, top-down reorganisation&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b573.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Competition can undoubtedly promote innovation but lowering standards to help new, inexperienced or small, single-degree providers with no interest in being research active, to gain degree awarding powers and university title is not opening the market but lowering the bar&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b573.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The assumption that institutions with UK university title or degree-awarding powers should be allowed to fail and exit the market is potentially at variance with the Government&#8217;s ambitions to promote UK higher education internationally&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b585.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I bear the scars on my back&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b587.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to lay foundations for educational excellence in all schools, giving every child the best start in life&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b587.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;towards a system where all schools are academies, and all schools are funded fairly.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b587.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;convert schools to academies in the worst performing local authorities and those that can no longer viably support their remaining schools, so that a new system led by good and outstanding schools can take their place.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b587.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;good and outstanding schools can still be made to convert, regardless of the professional judgement of school leaders, the opposition of parents and the best interests of local communities. Schools have had the chance to convert over many years, and many have considered and rejected this as a way forward.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b587.0/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;schools with the same kinds of pupils get the same funding.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b587.0/16" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Ironically, the Government risks fuelling the North-South divide in education by proposing to fund schools with similar characteristics differently, based on their location. This means that our region will be losing funds to the south, where most high-cost areas are located. The rationale behind this is flawed.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b610.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to lay foundations for educational excellence in all schools,&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b610.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to promote choice and competition across the higher education sector.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b610.4/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a fragmentation of the colleges in Greater Manchester&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b614.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the worst economic prospects for several generations&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b622.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Higher education is one of our country&#8217;s leading export success stories, but the government&#8217;s current approach to post-study work is jeopardising Britain&#8217;s position in the global race for talent&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b629.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;wretched, abject, frightful, hideous and miserable.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b629.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;They are man&#8217;s&#8230;This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware of them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy&#8230;beware ignorance the most.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b632.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;&#8216;Tis Education forms the common mind, Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree&#8217;s inclined.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b632.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b633.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;educational excellence in all schools, giving every child the best start in life.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b635.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;academies for all&#8230;will be in the Queen&#8217;s Speech.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-04-27">27 April</phrase> 2016; Vol. 608, c. 1422.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b637.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a mile wide and an inch deep&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b644.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b644.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 263, Noes 300.</p>