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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tuition-fees-plans-clear-parliament.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Government plans to raise the tuition fees cap have cleared Parliament" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-tuition-fees-plans-clear-parliament.jpg" alt="Government plans to raise the tuition fees cap have cleared Parliament"/></a></p>
<p>Government plans to massively raise student tuition fees have comfortably survived another test as peers rejected a Labour bid to stop the hike in its tracks.</p>
<p>The coalition successfully contained dissent over the move to almost treble the maximum charge to £9,000 a year &#8211; winning the vote by 73, almost twice its majority in the Lords.</p>
<p>It will come as a relief to ministers who last week saw the coalition&#8217;s majority slashed to 21 in the Commons as fewer than half of all Liberal Democrat MPs voted in favour of the measure.</p>
<p>Some did raise fears about the policy, including former higher education spokeswoman Baroness Sharp of Guildford who said there were elements &#8220;which I don&#8217;t understand and I think are unfair&#8221;.</p>
<p>But peers voted by a majority of 68 to support raising the basic level of university fees to £6,000 and by a majority of 73 to raising the cap on fees to £9,000 from 2012.</p>
<p>The current fee cap is £3,290 for the academic year 2010/11.</p>
<p>Outside, there was no repeat of the violent disorder which marred protests on Thursday, with just a handful of demonstrators gathering at New Scotland Yard to voice anger at the police tactics.</p>
<p>Defeat would have been rare as the fees increase is being taken through Parliament not in a Bill but in a regulation, of a kind which the House of Lords conventionally does not reject.</p>
<p>But Labour tabled an amendment which would have killed it &#8211; forcing the Government to revisit the Commons vote &#8211; arguing that exceptional circumstances gave it constitutional justification.</p>
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