British ¡Afuera! is a new series of pieces applying the principles of the IEA’s ‘Sharper Axes, Lower Taxes’ and Argentinian … Continue reading “British ¡Afuera! #2 – Higher Education”

Trump’s executive action-fuelled battles with woke universities fill the headlines. Columbia has capitulated; “heroic” Harvard holds its £53bn-endowment-funded ground. But … Continue reading “Universities: what can we learn from the US?”

Contents Summary Urgent financial crisis: The government’s inflation based increase in 2025 tuition fees from £9,250 to £9,535 will generate … Continue reading “Shares in Students: A New Model for University Funding”

Continued from Part 1.   The central flaw in our current system of financing higher education is that the third … Continue reading “The Great Tuition Fees Escape (Part 2)”

Jeremy Corbyn’s success at converting young people to his cause, encouraged by the promise of the abolition of tuition fees … Continue reading “The Great Tuition Fees Escape (Part 1)”

The “Australian-style” points system that the Leave campaign was advocating during the EU referendum debate might provide more control over … Continue reading “Brexit reinforces the case for market-oriented reform of Universities”

You don’t have to be a Marxist to believe in historical materialism. The idea that changes in the economic environment … Continue reading “Universities need new freedoms. The government is making matters worse”

Writing in The Times on Wednesday, Jo Johnson, the new Universities Minister, noted the disappointing statistic that almost half of … Continue reading “Universities need to deliver value for money”

The current system of financing higher education is stuck in a rut. It does not work particularly well for anybody: … Continue reading “Funding higher education through a free-market ‘graduate tax’”