Former Bishop’s Stortford High School student Andrew Lewin – Labour’s General Election candidate for the Welwyn Hatfield seat – is questioning the impact of Tory manifesto pledges on the University of Hertfordshire. He has called on his Conservative opponent Grant Shapps, the constituency’s MP since 2005, to come clean on the consequences of plans to scrap one in eight university courses in England to fund apprenticeships. He feared the move could result in hundreds of higher education job losses across the country including up to 274 posts at the University of Hertfordshire. He said apprentic…
