Inside the student movement: Education not for sale
By Daniel Randall, NUS National Executive Committee A recent article in the Times revealed that the number of students applying to university has, in some places, fallen by 13% on last year's figures. Overall applications by sixth formers have fallen by 5%. In other words, it seems that if you force students to pay £3,000 for the privilege of going to university, less of them are going to want to do it. Shocker. According to the same article, there have also been shifts in the numbers for applications to particular courses. One university registrar commented, "there could be a misunderstanding...