Today we can say something we could not say six years ago: with more affordable student loans, more Pell grants and work-study jobs, education IRAs, a lifetime learning tax credit for junior and senior year of college, and the new HOPE scholarship tax cut that more than 5 million Americans will receive this year, we have opened the doors of college to all.

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Others being appointed MBEs are Elizabeth Milburn, from West Suffolk College, for services to further education and the community, Susan Tamlyn, for heritage work and Andrew Wood, manager and head coach at Ipswich Gymnastics Centre, for sport.

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