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The World of JR (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Lammy, the universities minister, has called for Labour’s election manifesto to feature a plan for hiking loan repayments by former students to fund a national civic service organisation. The extra charge could amount to more than £600 a year for students with current average debts of £25,000. Not only that, but students would be forced to complete community service...
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Another shit idea from the fag end government that has run out of ideas. BBC Pravda dutifully reports the latest idea from its paymasters in New Labour: Higher education minister David Lammy has backed calls for a national army of volunteers to help the UK economy out of recession. The idea comes from a report which also calls for students to do 100 hours of "compulsory civic service"....
The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
As a libertarian and as someone with a reasonable knowledge of history, I find the idea of state slavery repulsive. So it's no bloody surprise that NuLabour have decided that it's actually a wonderful thing . Higher education minister David Lammy has backed calls for a national army of volunteers to help the UK economy out of recession. All credit to Lammy, he seems to be admitting...
IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone (Free subscription) | yesterday
... release of 4 December tells us that the UK Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property David Lammy helped "... to negotiate breakthrough on new European Patent". The IPKat is dutifully pleased that Mr Lammy contributed to this result. The UK IPO's press release quotes Mr Lammy as follows: "If Europe is serious about our knowledge economy being...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... active "service learning" would become a compulsory part of the school curriculum. David Lammy, the minister for innovation, universities and skills, said the ideas should become Labour policy: "In a consumerist age, young people need more opportunities to develop an ethic of service to others. For a more altruistic, less parochial youth culture, we need a national...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... I became. I had visions of floundering, like the unfortunate Minister for Higher Education, David Lammy, and starting to answer that Marie Antoinette had discovered penicillin. I imagined drying up and being unable to speak while John Humphrys lacerated me with a withering stare. I started to have terrible dreams where I'd wake up screaming, "Carter suffered from stagflation and his...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... I became. I had visions of floundering, like the unfortunate Minister for Higher Education, David Lammy, and starting to answer that Marie Antoinette had discovered penicillin. I imagined drying up and being unable to speak while John Humphrys lacerated me with a withering stare. I started to have terrible dreams where I'd wake up screaming, "Carter suffered from stagflation and his...
