Martin McQuillan of Kingston University and the London Graduate School, offers this analysis of the Browne Report, which recommends unlimited fees, set by universities, and also recommends total elimination of state support for arts and humanities study.
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In effect Browne’s committee ... has at a stroke privatised the arts and humanities in England. The committee recommends that the state should no longer have any investment in these areas and that private individuals who wish to pursue such things at their own cost should pay for them....
The fundamental reason to oppose tuition fees of any kind is that those who benefited from a free higher education as a democratic right should not when in government (as a result of that free higher education) tell future generations that they must now take on mortgage-sized debts to pay for the same privilege.... One should not just resist this situation; it has to be refused utterly.... This is a culture war in which critical thought is threatened with extinction.
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