They just don’t learn do they? After the debacle of the dementia tax, dropped from the sky like a fetid policy asteroid straight into the heart of the Tory manifesto, you’d think they’d have realised that with radical policy ideas it is worth at least getting the cabinet onside. Apparently not. The Times has a fascinating investigation by Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson into university funding: who pays, and who decides who pays, for a degree. Problems quickly emerged: it is both expensive, costing £2.3 billion,…

Source: The Times October 18, 2017 07:52 UTC