'[It's] a transition from being a market economy to being a market society... a move away from conceiving of people as citizens, members of a community who collectively share the burdens & opportunities of life... [to] a series of individuals who pay for what they want & don’t pay for anything else'
Alice Marples
‘The task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round.’
Stefan Collini on universities in crisis
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...
