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HIKING tuition fees and allowing corporations to open universities are part of an “ideological attack” on higher education presented as an illusion of choice, students warned yesterday.
The government’s higher education white paper published yesterday outlined plans to give universities permission to charge over £9,000 if they score highly for teaching standards.
And companies such as Facebook and Google could also award their own degrees, Tory Universities Minister Jo Johnson announced.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE