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

BBC: Ministers say Vocational A-levels are being redeveloped

Instruction would be for courses in the College of Business, Education, Health Professions, Liberal Arts or Sciences.

CNN: Colleges across U.S. helping displaced students

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.

ECONOMIST: The difficulties of an American doctoral student

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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