What has gone wrong with our universities?

A warts and all look at British higher education

In this edition of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the expansion of higher education has delivered so much less than it promised. Is government policy, managerial self-interest, funding models or student priorities most to blame?

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