Bill Rammell, Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, said such projects were a big step forward in reaching their goal.

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Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell said this showed tuition fees were not putting students off applying to university, as critics of higher fees had predicted.

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She said Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Minister Bill Rammell will raise the issue with the Laotian foreign minister when he visits the UK on 7 May.

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The importance of this national survey has been emphasised in previous years by the Higher Education Minister, Bill Rammell - who called it a "powerful tool for student empowerment and institutional improvement".

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But armed forces minister Bill Rammell told the BBC troop numbers had been increased from 5, 500 to 9, 000 and that the international force had been bolstered by an extra 20, 000 US personnel.

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But instead of engaging with the problem, Bill Rammell, the Minister for Higher Education, attacked the poll for finding out these things and declared that the problem of radicalism on campus was in fact "serious, but not widespread".

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Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell said there was nothing new in students taking term-time jobs to supplement their lifestyle, but the abolition of up-front fees from September this year and bursaries for less well-off students would make money less of a concern.

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Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell said the report "confirms what we have been saying for some time now - that graduates, on average, earn more and are more likely to be in a job than those without degrees, and that higher education is likely to be the best investment a student will ever make".

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