Running our universities for profit was always a bad idea | Letter
The Guardian Higher Education
MAY 28, 2024
When the teaching grant plus fee of £6,000 was replaced by a student fee of £9,000, universities reacted like lemmings by increasing student numbers to make a profit. The result has been a rise in fixed costs to pay for vast building programmes, and in administrative overheads to deal with more students and increased regulatory demands.
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