VIRALITY

Lifting the cap on fees has marketised higher education, with falling student numbers and reduced entry requirements…

Ros Coward in the The Guardian, Thursday 24 January 2013

Some call what’s happening in the university sector a “radical overhaul”. This sounds planned and orderly. But as student numbers fall and talk turns to the politically embarrassing possibility of university bankruptcies, this starts to look more like a demonstration of the law of unintended consequences.