Tories push for free market universities
Less than 48 hours after ten thousand students hit the streets calling for free education and living grants for all on 4 November, Universities Minister Jo Johnson announced the long-awaited Green Paper on Higher Education. If the proposals become law, it would mean nothing short of the end of public higher education. This Green Paper follows neatly on from the fee hike of 2010. £9,000 tuition fees ushered in a new type of education system. Students have to make astronomical investments in their education. Rather than education being about a love of learning, or for the social good, going to...