The hollowing out of higher education
Universities are trashing the very subject knowledge that makes doing a degree worthwhile.
The Prime Minister is worried about ‘rip-off university courses’. Rishi Sunak plans to ‘crack down’ on ‘poor-quality courses’ that don’t offer graduates the ‘prospect of a decent job’. His Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, concurs. She thinks that young people only go to university ‘because they don’t know what else to do,…