Student Loans

[Protheroe]

Higher Education expanded beyond need or demand.

[man in the corner shop]

Higher Education expanded beyond need or demand.

That's the market doing its thing Mr Hayek.

[Jacko]

There's more problems in Higher Education than just student loans. Two East Midlands universities are running with £20million+ deficits, Coventry has a £60 million pound deficit.

Student loans are the tip of the iceberg. There's rank mismanagement, but also successive governments undervaluing the sector and actively seeking to discourage international students. It all needs reforms to be made.

Imagine there even being a Coventry University... 

[Protheroe]

Higher Education expanded beyond need or demand.

That's the market doing its thing Mr Hayek.

Precisely the opposite actually.

[tHEgLASSdOORS]

The pseudo marketisation of education has failed at every step.

[Borin' Baggie]

Higher Education expanded beyond need or demand.

It expanded with demand. 

Firstly, as we have transitioned to a service economy since the 1980s the demand for degree-educated people in the workforce has increased. 

Secondly, international students have increased massively.

[Shabby Russian]

Higher Education expanded beyond need or demand.

Oh I think there is a demand.

A lot of people like the idea of going to university or their children going to university.

They would consider it aspirational.

Aspiration there's a word that has gone out of fashion with the right wing commenteriat.

[tHEgLASSdOORS]

Higher Education expanded beyond need or demand.

Gotta love someone who went themselves but doesn’t think others should

[man in the corner shop]

Higher Education expanded beyond need or demand.

That's the market doing its thing Mr Hayek.

Precisely the opposite actually.

You seem to be calling for Trotskyite and Maoist regulation of higher education.

[Protheroe]

Higher Education expanded beyond need or demand.

It expanded with demand. 

Firstly, as we have transitioned to a service economy since the 1980s the demand for degree-educated people in the workforce has increased. 

Secondly, international students have increased massively.

But there is clearly NOT the demand for the graduates who're emerging. That's the point.

What value is there to the country or the individual in graduates ending in non-graduate roles. As most now do.