This seemed obvious to me when the push for greater uni education began. For many people, it was a waste of time relative to alternatives better suited to their capacity, aptitude and interests; supported by excessive public expenditure, which perhaps pushed unis to focus more on numbers and income rather than providing a quality education to those who could benefit from it. And hence a shift to revenue-raising rather than best-practice education. [I grew up in a poor fatherless family and got a scholarship on merit to LSE in 1961, at which time about six per cent of students went to uni.]
This seemed obvious to me when the push for greater uni education began. For many people, it was a waste of time relative to alternatives better suited to their capacity, aptitude and interests; supported by excessive public expenditure, which perhaps pushed unis to focus more on numbers and income rather than providing a quality education to those who could benefit from it. And hence a shift to revenue-raising rather than best-practice education. [I grew up in a poor fatherless family and got a scholarship on merit to LSE in 1961, at which time about six per cent of students went to uni.]