England's universities flex their muscles to hike fees, while students get a bum deal | Sonia Sodha

English undergraduate education is a hot mess that works in the institutional interests of universities, not young people.

Politicians have given far too little thought about how to do this in a way that serves students, not universities.

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson ’s fee increase won’t make much difference to the typical graduate.

There is every chance that young people are paying for the privilege of being stratified by their A-level grades into a system that ends up doing more to cement than tackle socioeconomic disadvantage.

No one is really looking out for the interests of young people in the face of an extraordinarily powerful university sector.

The genius PR move by those who defend the system has been to portray anyone questioning it as being anti-aspiration.