I’VE clearly lived a different UK socio-political history to the weekend political pundits who are talking about the cash crisis in universities being a legacy of the last government.
I blame the Tories for a great deal of the hideous mess the UK is in, but let’s try for a modicum of honesty here.
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Many of us predicted the mess universities would end up in when Tony Blair’s Labour government turned universities into your average Ponzi scheme with the introduction of tuition fees.
The obscene dash for wealthy foreign students and the stack them/rack them/pack them approach to stuffing universities any way you can, thus lowering standards plus crushing generations of young people under hideous debt, has turned students from the country’s promise-of-tomorrow into mass cash cows.
Amanda Baker
Edinburgh
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