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Pretty much agree with this (although it was the Major government that turned polytechnics into universities, not Blair's). I'd add that there needs to be a proper apprentice policy too

As someone who was the first person in his family to go to university I'm a bit bemused by this. My mum left school at 14 to look after her brothers, my dad left school at 15 to work in a factory. I remember life without car, phone, fridge, TV or washing machine and yet, we were one of the most...

I don't know how many people got 2 Es back in 1972 but my guess is no more than 20% (and probably fewer than that) At the moment, just under 50% go to uni, so 2 Es would probably be a top half performance EDIT. Just see AAD's post. "Believing that A level performance necessarily reflects how...

No uni would make an offer to someone who couldn't pass an A level. In my day, universities could take mature students if they took an entrance exam (don't know if that's still the case). In Alex, Alex Dawson's day, it wasn't uncommon for universities to make offers on Es: Cs were common and...

I agree with this. I do think that university tuition but there needs to be more imagination. Why are course three years? There's no need for that. Why aren't we using a combination of MOOCs and personal tuition? I also agree that there are too many people going to university. When I was at...

It was still politicians who benefited from free education - that's the point. Doesn't matter which party it was You could ask what's the cost of free education to Germany- a much bigger country. But the cost of free education wouldn't be that high. We already near the tipping point where the...

That's a bit old, it happened some months ago. Germany's on the right track here, I'm encouraging my son to learn German so that, in ten years time, he can get his university education for nothing. All the politicians currently running our country had university tuition for free, I see no...