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Why Greg Clarks silence on tuition fees could backfire

The universities minister is refusing to reveal Conservative plans on tuition fees and overseas students. This provides an opportunity for Labour to make the running on higher education policy

Universities and the 2015 election: gulf between big parties widens

Why is Greg Clark using a lot of words without saying anything? He has, as he told his audience at the annual vice-chancellors conference last week, a PhD from the London School of Economics. But by the time he sat down, most of his listeners notebooks were blank.

The answer is not in Leeds, where the minister was speaking, but in Birmingham at the end of the month, where the Tory manifesto for next years general election will take shape. Like the Lib Dems, it seems that the Conservative party neither has, nor wants, any new initiatives for universities. But in between is next weeks Labour party conference in Manchester. This may expose Clarks empty rhetoric as an expensive miscalculation.

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