Comments on: David Willetts, Karl Marx and Higher Education in the UK http://loveofhistory.com/david-willetts-karl-marx-and-higher-education-in-the-uk/ A historical perspective of current events Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:54:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Maria Pretzler http://loveofhistory.com/david-willetts-karl-marx-and-higher-education-in-the-uk/#comment-344 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:41:34 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-344 Interesting perspective – and one that is very surprising. Nice find!

It is of course a fair point to say that tax-supported degrees mean that everybody pays for the education of the privileged.

On the other hand, a completely free ‘fees market’ will cause problems with social mobility.

Something like the US Ivy League system (where you pay anything between nothing to very high fees, depending on ability to pay) might be worth considering, perhaps.

Personally, I’d also like to see them consider a graduate tax – including everybody, especially those who got their degrees for free, with good maintenance grants attached, and also reaped better benefits from that because competition wasn’t as fierce.

Surely, such a graduate tax would only be fair? If we ask the present generation to repay their debt to the state for funding their HE, why not all those of us who got there earlier, and a lot more cheaply?

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