That was the very week Labour introduced student top-up fees.
You can't back "top-up" payments for wonder drugs while still repudiating my own student "top-up" fees, Clarke told them.
Back in 2004, when I became involved in politics, the big issues of the day were the Iraq war and student top-up fees.
He hasn't been afraid to rebel against the party line, casting opposing votes against the invasion of Iraq, the introduction of student top-up fees and Tony Blair's invasive anti-terror laws.
Yet not only were my students top rate, the Bob Marley I knew was quite different.
For all the government's bullying, the proportion of students top universities recruit from state schools is barely rising.
"Financial security, once seen as a middling value, is now tied as students' top goal," he writes.
According to preliminary enrollment figures, Chinese-American students top the list with an enrollment of nearly 1,000, making up one-fourth of the campus's fall freshman class.
Whether they were honor students, top athletes or free spirits, all of these "homegrown" teachers interviewed acknowledged a tremendous affection for the schools they once attended.
