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Look at our universities today and one can readily swap the charges of scandalous monks, the hoarding of wealth and the corruption of souls for the solicitation of too many students to accrue crippling debt in the pursuit of too little knowledge for insufficient personal benefit. For hotbeds of popery, we have hotbeds of wokery. The case for the dissolution of the universities begins to make itself.
Universities now stand accused of failing the two metrics by which they are usually judged: as guardians, transmitters and developers of the sum of human knowledge — cultivators of the mind — and as preparatory institutes for the professional classes. But more has meant worse. And if that is so, fewer would be better.
Amongst the UK’s more than 160 universities, too many are failing to justify the extent of the indebtedness with which they saddle predominantly young people. Grade inflation diminishes the academic value of courses, whilst genuflecting to woke shibboleths debases their content. Whilst our top universities still excel — four are in the world top ten for scientific research — how well is the country being served by the majority that have developed no such distinction yet ensure comparable levels of graduate indebtedness?
Several are already on the verge of bankruptcy. The prolonged freezing of tuition fees means they make a loss on the average home student. The previous government talked tough on clamping down on “Mickey Mouse” degrees and foreign student numbers, with limited action. The Starmer government plans to turn a blind eye to the former, and ignore the latter, whilst considering a hike to tuition fees that would further erode the graduate premium. The situation is dire. A Thomas Cromwell is required.
Look at our universities today and one can readily swap the charges of scandalous monks, the hoarding of wealth and the corruption of souls for the solicitation of too many students to accrue crippling debt in the pursuit of too little knowledge for insufficient personal benefit. For hotbeds of popery, we have hotbeds of wokery. The case for the dissolution of the universities begins to make itself.
Universities now stand accused of failing the two metrics by which they are usually judged: as guardians, transmitters and developers of the sum of human knowledge — cultivators of the mind — and as preparatory institutes for the professional classes. But more has meant worse. And if that is so, fewer would be better.
Amongst the UK’s more than 160 universities, too many are failing to justify the extent of the indebtedness with which they saddle predominantly young people. Grade inflation diminishes the academic value of courses, whilst genuflecting to woke shibboleths debases their content. Whilst our top universities still excel — four are in the world top ten for scientific research — how well is the country being served by the majority that have developed no such distinction yet ensure comparable levels of graduate indebtedness?
Several are already on the verge of bankruptcy. The prolonged freezing of tuition fees means they make a loss on the average home student. The previous government talked tough on clamping down on “Mickey Mouse” degrees and foreign student numbers, with limited action. The Starmer government plans to turn a blind eye to the former, and ignore the latter, whilst considering a hike to tuition fees that would further erode the graduate premium. The situation is dire. A Thomas Cromwell is required.