‘The mantra, repeated ad nauseam in those years, was “competition drives up quality,” an assertion that anyone looking at, say, the privatised water companies or privatised train companies might greet with a hollow laugh.’
Stefan Collini on the crisis in universities.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
