Mr Lansley said: "A compulsory tax option is very bad policy – it is completely unsustainable.
"Our research continues to show very large differences in attainment between children born at the start and end of the academic year, which affects the post-compulsory education options open to them," said Claire Crawford, programme director of the IFS and one of the report's authors.
Check which modules are compulsory and the options offered for each year of the course because they can change after prospectuses are published.
As most biologists are not familiar with ontological terms, tools for helping them to annotate the data in ontological terms at the time of file creation would be needed to make the option compulsory.
Frances Eustace, MA medieval studies student, University of Bristol I'm taking a two-year, part-time course including compulsory core elements, three options and final dissertation.
These options include compulsory licensing, parallel importing, technology transfer, local production and voluntary differential pricing.
Autonomy, or choice, can be maintained in compulsory activities by offering students options for topics, supervisors and group composition, enhanced by elective research opportunities.
John Peach, council leader, said yesterday the council was looking at various ways of shedding staff; compulsory redundancy was an option but it still wanted volunteers to come forward.
Ideas such as first-time compulsory voting with the option to not select any candidate, making voter registration easier, voting online and lowering the voting age are not silver bullets, but may help reverse this worrying trend".
One option is compulsory private saving, but this will be highly unpopular with voters if they think that it is a waste of money in a means-tested regime.
