The wheels are already falling off the coalition's policy for universities.

The wheels are already falling off the coalition government's policy for English universities. I don't think the powers-that-be expected universities such as Exeter,
Manchester and Essex to start charging £9000 a year. We can thank two brain
David Willetts for that.
Last week's Sunday Times was a bit depressing. James Dyson said it was madness educating our competitors and complained that some Chinese students were spies while there was a story that Oxford University was not taking cheating and plagiarism seriously.

I went to a polytechnic and we had quite a few lessons during the week and we were expected to go them. The common refrain from students is that they have acres of free time and the experience is not quite as portrayed in the prospectus. I do feel sorry for university lecturers trying to teach the increase in student numbers and do research. However, it was unfair for some lecturers to go on strike recently in defence of their pensions. That is an issue, which should be negotiated.