The UK's Universities Are in a State of Crisis

In the united kingdom, we have the opposite system. It's the universities that have essentially been reduced to agencies of a government financed national higher education service. Despite the advent in england and wales of top up fees that are still below what the best institutions should be charging. Whereas there's a lively and financially un strained independent sector in secondary education. The apologists for traditional state education need to grasp a very simple point. By providing free state schooling that is generally of mediocre quality you insensivi the emergence of a really good private system.