Over twenty years, university education has been opened up from a meritocracy (where a small percentage of the most intelligent young people who score highest in nation-wide testing have their education funded in the long term interests of the country) to an unsustainable approach where the majority of those who leave college with any grade were able to go to university and get a grant, so that loans could be introduced, followed by american style tuition fees so that we are now back to a pre-war setup where university education is opened up without any risk to the (stupid or intelligent) sons and daughters of the wealthy, amongst whom are the less wealthy but ambitious who will take the financial risk of major loans but afterwards feel they owe nothing to society, and give little back.
How Grants turn to Fees, and what it really means
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