Three universities in the UK are teetering on bankruptcy. Average student debt is hovering around £50K
49% of young people enter higher education.
1.8 million in 2013 up from 300,000 in 1960

Are we cheating our young people?
Are we using student numbers to massage unemployment figures?
Are we treating higher education as a business more than a learning center?
"Should we really be encouraging youngsters to spend three of their most vigorous years studying 'body contour fashion', 'tournament golf' or 'beauty promotion', all of which are current degrees.
Ever since the Blair years — it was New Labour that settled, arbitrarily it seems, on a target of getting 50 per cent of school-leavers into university — politicians have cited these figures as signs of great progress."

My cynical view is that a shed load of debt creates docile sheople.
I also think the system needs root and branch overhaul, so all students obtain value for money.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6344343/DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-looks-three-universities-brink-bankruptcy.html