England's universities flex their muscles to hike fees, while students get a bum deal | Sonia Sodha
Canny PR suggests critics are against aspiration but who is policing the spread of poor-quality degrees?Sometimes you just need to call something out for what it is. English undergraduate education is a hot mess that works in the institutional interests of universities, not young people.Yes, there are bastions of excellence. But, in expanding an elite system that served a small slice of society a few decades ago to cover about half of young people, politicians have given far too little thought about how to do this in a way that serves students, not universities. Continue reading...
Canny PR suggests critics are against aspiration but who is policing the spread of poor-quality degrees?
Sometimes you just need to call something out for what it is. English undergraduate education is a hot mess that works in the institutional interests of universities, not young people.
Yes, there are bastions of excellence. But, in expanding an elite system that served a small slice of society a few decades ago to cover about half of young people, politicians have given far too little thought about how to do this in a way that serves students, not universities. Continue reading...
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