Pressure to change the culture has been launched by Liberal Democrat MP Phil Willis and the trade union Unite.

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Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis said young people and employers wanted high quality vocational courses that had real standing.

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Liberal Democrat MP Phil Willis, chairman of the all-party parliamentary mobile group, accused the Tories of playing politics with the issue.

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Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis said ministers had "abandoned the fundamental principle" of making academic and vocational qualifications of equal value.

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Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis used the report to call on the government to scrap tuition fees for long courses like medicine.

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And the chair of the universities select committee, Phil Willis, has said the threat to quality is the most serious issue facing higher education.

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The Liberal Democrat education spokesman, Phil Willis, welcomed the latest fall but said the government had to do more to reduce class sizes throughout primary school.

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Liberal Democrat education spokesperson, Phil Willis, said that the figures showed that government was "rowing back" on claims to have recruited an extra 25, 000 teachers since 1997.

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Phil Willis, chairman of the committee, said scientists and doctors had given compelling arguments over a number of years about the threat that the directive posed to use of MRI.

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Walt "Clyde" Frazier, Willis Reed and Phil Jackson, players on the 1973 Knicks championship team, would be too slow in their positions to help any NBA team win a championship in 1993.

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