Good Sense from the U.K.

Here is a column from the Guardian that makes wonderfully good sense about the costs and benefits of higher education.

Efforts by Cameron’s government to reduce costs in British universities have been met with the same sort of united front that we’re familiar with — a chorus proclaiming disaster if less money flows into the universities. The tactics used by special-interest groups intent on keeping every last farthing of their governmental largesse are pretty much the same everywhere.