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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Universities will be competing for students rather than relying on a block grant and fixed incomes irrespective of quality or relevance of courses. Without being able to get money from the government to offer weird degrees in irrelevant nonsense they can either improve and focus or fail.
It'll also make students more conscious of the quality of their courses. As they pay more they'll expect more and if they aren't getting value for money they will most certainly make sure the institutions know about it.
So saying it'll do nothing is merely equating quality with cash, specifically government cash.
Education at the bottom of the pile is already a mass affair by many accounts.
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A lot less students will be able to afford to go to University so judging the quality of the course is a small consultation if they did. Even at the moment people can take the a smallish level of debt in order to go, this will simply discourage even very talented candidates from University if they are from a poor background.
I don't think the government is cutting University funding so drastically because they want to improve 'quality' or to remove pointless degrees.