“Go and visit our universities. Buildings are shabby, toilets don’t work, and roofs leak. Equipment is getting old, staff are underpaid and classes are overcrowded.”
Steven Schwartz, Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University, in The Daily Telegraph (July 30)
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“It is fear of crime which gives Blunkett licence to send, this year, 80,000 people — many of them mentally ill — to a prison system designed for infinitely less. It also justifies a punitive approach to social policy which feeds into xenophobia, racism and the demonisation of the young.”
Yvonne Roberts, Community Care (July 31)
“The time has come for a rethink on across-the-board rail subsidies. Perhaps public money should be targeted only where essential — on commuter lines in London and the South East for instance — and let the market take care of the rest.”
Sir Christopher Foster, former rail privatisation adviser, in The Observer (August 3)
“The Commission for Racial Equality estimates that one in five black men go to prison. Just over one in ten go to university. It means that black men are more likely to go to prison than further education.”
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Sukhvinder Stubbs, chairman of education charity Young Enterprise, in Regeneration & Renewal (August 1)
“The downside of spin is most dangerously apparent in health. Most people no longer believe what the Government says is the NHS’s record of improvement.”
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Frank Field, MP for Birkenhead, in The Sunday Times (August 3)