That is from the Guardian this morning:

College Vice Chancellors (who, as a group, are by far the largest winners from the present system of college funding) are saying the system is damaged.

Tuition charges haven’t labored for UK-based college students.

The penal expenses after leaving college are making individuals query whether or not it’s price going.

The funds from abroad college students are threatened by new migration regulation adjustments.

The viability of many universities is in critical doubt. Many are in pretty persistent deficit now.

So, but once more, the Tories have confirmed that imposing a personal financing mannequin on a public utility not solely doesn’t work however will carry it to its knees.

After all, when you consider in schooling for an elite, that is the consequence you might have at all times sought. I believe that many within the Conservatives can be proud of this consequence.

However let us take a look at it one other method. Firstly universities are a large export earner for the UK. If we want to undermine this export enterprise when most others are already failing the Tories are going the appropriate method about doing so, however this makes no financial sense.

Second, imposing expenses on college students is dangerous sufficient. Imposing penal rates of interest on supposed loans taken out to fund schooling for the advantage of society is insanity: it’s all about redistributing revenue upwards from those that haven’t obtained mother and father who can cowl their full prices when at college to those that have.

So most actually this method is damaged.

However then so too are universities themselves, the place the commodification of the college typically appears of better significance than the availability of schooling. The over-administration that could be a attribute of the NHS underneath related pressures can also be to be discovered within the college sector. That additionally wants reform.

However are the VCs proper? After all they’re. Universities are simply becoming a member of the remainder of schooling, healthcare, social care, and a lot extra in damaged Britain. All of the Tories have proved is that when you got down to break the nation, then you may. The difficulty was, they by no means had any concept what needs to be put rather than all they wrecked.