“Under plans due to be announced later, universities in England will be forced to limit the number of students they recruit onto underperforming courses.”

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    Going to university is far more than getting a qualification. It’s part of enabling young people to develop as people intellectually and socially. This is something that the Tories don’t understand. They want to monetise everything. Including the interests and aspirations of people. Tories have wrecked primary and secondary education and now want to finish off post-compulsory learning. They really are below vermin.

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        1 year ago

        Brilliant. Captures that money-obsessed mindset perfectly.

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      There was a study done by Tory MPs in 2005 after a devastating defeat by Labour. One of the conclusions of the study was that people who were graduating were becoming less likely to vote Conservative. There is a tin foil hat conspiracy that reckons the Tories are actively destroying state schools and making it harder for working class to become educated. The study was titled direct democracy. an agenda for a new model party