The minister was making a statement on Higher Education (HE) in Wales, on 29 November 2011.
The amendment tightens up the laws on higher education, homelessness, election campaigns and family rights.
The comments came in a leaked response to the Scottish government's green paper on higher education.
Only 15% of spending on higher education comes from public sources, compared to an OECD average of 69%.
The study put the UK second for university research and teaching but 27th for spending on higher education.
The anti-fees academics wanted to influence the university's response to the government's White Paper on higher education funding.
He is also a member of the UNIVERSITAS 21 advisory group on Higher Education and the Millennium Development Goals.
It came 27th for the resourcing of universities and 41st out of 48 for government spending on higher education.
Thomas Mortensen runs a newsletter called Postsecondary Education Opportunity that is filled with great historical data on higher education.
Six options were set out in the SNP administration's green paper on higher education, including the state retaining "prime responsibility".
The stimulus for this publication came from the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education (UNESCO, Paris 5-8 July 2009).
The policy is being considered as part of a government White Paper on higher education, due to be published in the summer.
On higher education, the president is working with Congress to increase funding for the Pell grant, which is targeted to low-income students.
He established the SSN Trust, his first family foundation back in 1994, naming it after his father and focussing on higher education.
Higher spending on higher education in general was associated with lower growth.
However, overall spending on higher education will increase compared to last year.
Today, we focus on higher education, specifically the cost of medical school.
Money not spent on higher education is subject to a penalty tax.
We will continue to support UNESCO and our newly formed UNESCO-Microsoft Task Force on Higher Education and ICT in every way we can.
Some supporting evidence for the sieving thesis comes from a study for a British committee that reported on higher education earlier this year.
The survey also found that more than half (58 percent) of college presidents question whether MOOCs will make a positive impact on higher education.
The World Conference on Higher Education was an important contribution towards international co-operation in higher education and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
From 1985 to 2009, real GDP per capita rose by 43 percent, so per-enrollee spending on higher education has approximately kept pace with that.
In the past two decades, the money that states spend on prisons has risen at six times the rate of spending on higher education.
It showed that public and private spending on higher education in the UK is 1.3% of GDP - below the OECD average of 1.5%.
Mervyn Storey of the DUP was concerned that further education (FE) colleges could suffer as a result of the announcement on higher education funding.
The Conference will feature a round table on Higher Education and research in Africa with the participation of Prime Minister Nahas Angula of Namibia.
Many believe that technology can have this effect on higher education.
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But the onus is now on higher education to find a way to not only keep them there, but ensure they finish what they started.
"As the UK and governments around the world move towards the 'student pays' model on higher education funding, employability is increasingly crucial to graduates, " said Mr Sowter.
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