Money and Higher Education

By happy coincidence, today’s papers bring news of trouble at the University of Phoenix (the largest private university in the US, with some good work done in the lifelong learning arena, but having some less honourable moments under the heading of quality assurance!), little to show for new fees in the UK, seeming student acceptance of those new fees (to which the universities have responded “let’s double them then”) and promises of matching funding for UK philantrophy.