Country Quote by Julia Hartley-Brewer

If Tony Blair really wants to see a higher education sector that is thriving and growing then he should be releasing universities from the…

— Damian Green

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Labour politicians ask 'Why do so few children from poor backgrounds go to university?' Well, I'll tell them. It's because they don't go to…

— Damian Green

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

— Lord Chesterfield

One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the…

— Uma Bharti

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I…

— Colin Baker

What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes…

— Tony Blair

“The fundamental evil of government grants is the fact that men are forced to pay for the support of ideas diametrically opposed to their…

— Ayn Rand

Getting a university education shouldn't be like buying a car, where money talks, so the rich get to buy a brand new shiny Ferrari…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there…

— Charles Kennedy

Along with never having got round to writing down our constitution and having a monarch who legally owns all the swans, one of the…

— David Olusoga

A university education is a privilege, but we should be proud that in Britain it is also a right, no matter what your income…

— David Lammy