Universities have forgotten their true purpose

Standards of learning have suffered as administrators increasingly focus on raising revenue from foreign students

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What are universities for? Different decades have thrown out different answers: the pursuit of truth, to train an elite, to grow the national economy, to promote social mobility. With news that Britain’s leading universities now get most of their fee income from foreign students, this decade’s answer is clear: universi…