Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Despite Winning Higher Fees, Universities Still Can't Escape Economics

Stephen Downes

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Britain has joined the worldwide trend toward higher tuition fees as Tony Blair prevailed in a close vote that more than doubled the maximums universities may charge. Academic leaders are cheering, but they shouldn't be. Though they may have found short term salvation, every pound of fee increases pushed forward the day when the public will turn elsewhere for an education. More.

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