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I would reflect the view that the organisations that have built up relationships with the people whom we are talking about are best placed to decide, with the people themselves, what is best for them paymentwise.
Colleges are different partly because we put resource into the front-line service to help those individuals decide what is the best course for them and, sometimes, what is the best college for them.
The bill appears to have been badly thought out from the start as well as being badly drafted. At best, it is a shoddy piece of work; at worst, it is an utter shambles.