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By Ian Dunt The government has been accused of “hiding” controversial tuition fee proposals in a bill on classroom behaviour. The education bill, published today, reveals government plans to radically increase teachers’ authority over rowdy pupils but it also includes a clause allowing variable rates of interest on student loans. The addition to the bill,… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Ministers are refusing to give way after a Commons committee attacked them for placing restrictions on “town hall Pravdas”. The coalition government is imposing a new code of practice controlling the publication of local authority newsletters. A report from the communities and local government committee has attacked the move as cutting across… Read more »