As many academics have warned, the funding system of higher education is heading towards disaster. Political insistence that higher education must operate like a market has led to many of the worst pathologies of market societies. For those who insist that higher education is a public good in an ethical sense, the original Willetts plan was always an abomination. The divide that the Brexit referendum exposed running down the middle of British society was, as much as anything, about higher education. Hilariously, the government’s recent Augar review of higher education funding took universities to task for spending too much money on marketing.

Source: The Guardian July 02, 2024 04:24 UTC