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► PM: poor students will get our help

Author: Simon Murphy

 

In an exclusive interview with The Courier, the Prime Minister highlighted the future of higher education as one of his key priorities.

Gordon Brown visited the city this weekend as part of his final campaign push before the general election on Thursday.

He urged Newcastle’s students not to let the Conservatives "wreck" their future by enforcing devastating public sector cuts.

Brown was keen to stress that helping underprivileged young people in Britain get a top university education was one of his central concerns.

"You know, that’s what makes me work hard every day," he said.

"I want everybody who has got the potential to make the most of the opportunities that are available, so there are more grants this year than at anytime in university education.

"Of course the balance is between the government’s grants, parental contributions and the tuition fees.

"Graduates, on average, earn twice as much as people who are not graduates, and so as we expand university education, it has been right to say that we’ve got to get the balance right between what you pay after you graduate and what we can contribute to your education."

Brown refused to pre-empt the ongoing higher education funding review but said he hoped that it would be equitable.

He added: "We want more people from all backgrounds to get the chance to go to university."

Brown warned against the dangers of a Tory government, indicating that they would slash the public services budget in the North East.

"We are saying to the young people that we will not leave you in the same position as the Conservatives did in the 1980s," he said.

"Don’t allow the Conservatives in now to wreck the economy because we have gone a long way from saving this country from a global financial recession.

"Jobs has been the key issue for this region for many, many years and we are the party that is built around providing job opportunities."

 
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