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Petition update, 15 July 2008

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We do not believe that this policy is necessary but is actually harmful to the Government’s objectives of widening participation. This policy will not only affect part time, mature students as individuals but will penalise most those universities that have successfully supported lifelong learning, exacerbate the under funding of part time students in general and threaten the range and development of curriculum for all students, but again particularly part time students.

We believe the ELQ policy is a crude and ill considered method of redistributing HE funds based on limited and flawed knowledge about the part time students who will be most affected on a ratio of 10:1 compared to full time students. We are not reassured by promises that current students will not be affected. This policy will cause long term damage and far beyond the boundaries of England and N Ireland and will represent a massive set back to all the espoused benefits of embedding lifelong learning into our culture.

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• Eva Manzano
• Geoffrey Pumford
• Kathryn Alderman
• Vanessa Morgan
• sarah marie smith
• Steven Cleverly
• Garry Brindley
• Beverley Hyland
• Clifford John Ludman
• Pippa Bow
• Mary Funnell
• Rose Gridneff
• Judie English
• Gillian Lindsay
• nicholas haken
• Martin Hotchin
• Louisa Troughton
• Gavin Thomson
• Gemma Quickfall
• Annette Feighery
• Geoff Bardell
• Kathryn Bishop
• Keith Robinson
• Peter Tomlinson
• Prof. G. J. Leigh OBE
• Harriet Kinloch
• Dick Nesbitt-Dufort
• Jesus Ayala
• Andrea De La Perrelle
• Lizzie Wells
• lynda clarkson
• Isobel Copas
• Roderick I Muttram
• Mark Horgan
• Christine Medlock
• Kirsty Harey
• Martin Snow
• Jane E Muttram
• Nadish Lad
• Ursula Llewellyn
• Rebecca McCabe
• Leanne de Main
• jill connor
• Alan Cox
• simon watson
• Leo W L Horton
• Mary Rudling
• Jeremy Gee
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• John Mckie
• Sarah Green
• Margaret Wilcox
• Sarah Frederick
• Alistair Matson
• Mabyn Aita
• Henok Kifle Worku
• james harper
• Chris Pateman
• Asad Khan
• Janet Downing
• Felicity Demetriou
• Rachel Wickett
• Dr Catherine Morris
• Paul Omar
• Lisa Patel
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• Maeve O'Brien
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• Heather Burton
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• Linda Morrice
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• Tina Lamour
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• justin carrell
• Marie Larkin
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• Valerie Kemm
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• Alexandra Benedict
• Stephen Steadman
• Irving Weinman
• Pam Coare
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• Raf O'Reilly
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• Dr Geoff Doel
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• Mrs. M. Davis
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• Sarah Wynne
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• William Edmondson
• M Priddy
• Delia Venables
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• Piotr Laczny
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• Tim Rumbell
• C E Gilchrist
• William George Allen
• Zeyn Saigol
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• kasturi Kolte
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• Andrew J. Brown
• Isobel Barrett
• Sanya John-Adegbola
• Alexander Brooks
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• Lisa Logan
• Jonathan Bacon
• Martin Escardo
• David Logan
• Matthew Barker
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• Michael Parks
• Jonathan Mason
• Vincent Quinn
• anthony campbell
• sahdiyya moghal
• Dr Karen M Long
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• Delia Sexton
• Mohamed Bamba
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• Jane Elliott
• Nicholas Till
• Peter Lovering
• june mitchell
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• John Sawyer
• Alvin Finch
• Jamie Williamson
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• Mark T Fowler
• Keith Manning
• Sam Moorhead
• neil watson
• Helen Ward
• Alexandra Paramour
• Wendy Woodward
• Sarah Parsons
• Charlotte Ridings
• Peter Wright
• Sue Barnard
• WOODROOFE SHIRLEY ANN
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• julia hope
• samantha watson
• Robert Hutchinson
• claudette morgan
• Phillip Clare
• Valerie Duffield
• Linda Teasdale
• Mike Brophy
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• Merlin Wilce
• Robbie Paul
• Steve Hallett
• Valerie Sheppard
• Rupert Molloy
• Jason King-Spooner
• Darren Caudle
• caroline poole
• John Elflett

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