page_title: Browne Review
section_title: Labour
hierarchical_section_title: Browne Review / Political positions / Labour
caption_attribution_description: DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 29JAN10 - David Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, speaks during the session 'Rebuilding Peace and Stability in Afghanistan' in the Congress Centre at the Annual Meeting 2010 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2010..
context_page_description: The Browne Review or Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance was a review to consider the future direction of higher education funding in England.
  It was launched on 9 November 2009 and published its findings on 12 October 2010. It was chaired by Lord Browne of Madingley, the former chief executive of BP. It recommended wide-ranging changes to the system of university funding, including removing the cap on the level of fees that universities can charge, and increasing the income level at which graduates must begin to pay back their loans to £21,000.
context_section_description: Lord Mandelson, the former Business Secretary who set up the review into higher education funding, hinted in July 2009 at a tuition fee rise stating that excellence in higher education was "not cheap" and that the country "had to face up to the challenge of paying for excellence".
  The Labour Party manifesto for the 2010 General Election promised extra University places but made no commitment on how much students would have to pay. During the Labour Party leadership election in 2010 following the resignation of Gordon Brown both Ed Balls and the eventual winner Ed Miliband came out in support of a graduate tax as a method of funding universities in the future. David Miliband was the only candidate in the leadership election not to support a graduate tax.
caption: David Miliband was the only candidate in the Labour leadership election to reject a graduate tax
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