higher debt enslavement

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Future historians, pondering changes in British society from the 1980s onwards, will struggle to account for the following curious fact. Although British business enterprises have an extremely mixed record (frequently posting gigantic losses, mostly failing to match overseas competitors, scarcely benefiting the weaker groups in society), and although such arm’s length public institutions as museums and galleries, the BBC and the universities have by and large a very good record (universally acknowledged creativity, streets ahead of most of their international peers, positive forces for human development and social cohesion), nonetheless over the past three decades politicians have repeatedly attempted to force the second set of institutions to change so that they more closely resemble the first. Some of those historians may even wonder why at the time there was so little concerted protest at this deeply implausible programme. But they will at least record that, alongside its many other achievements, the coalition government took the decisive steps in helping to turn some first-rate universities into third-rate companies. If you still think the time for criticism is over, perhaps you’d better think again.

an excellent review in lrb on what damage is being done to Universities

[eighthobstruction]

an excellent review in lrb on what damage is being done to Universities

....'sub-prime degrees' may be a phrase we hear a lot of....a lot info here....is it really in essence saying that corpo cats are making a lot of money out of Higher Ed these days and that less money by far goes into the 'actual education', than does go towards promotion/PR etc (and of course profits)....Does it also say that the Coalitions (Conservative) ideology and ideas are flawed in so far that they are NOT getting value for money....AND NOR ARE WE....in fact corpo cats have found all the loop holes in the Higher Education budget legalese and are taking full advantage of it....