Oxford? Cambridge? Got the cash in that brown paper bag? That'll do nicely.

[non sociopath skin]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/10/plan-rich-pay-extra-university-places-entrech-privilege

What price social mobility?

The Skin

[T_i_B]

1. Even by David Willetts low, low standards.....

this is a really shit idea. A prime example of what happens when free market dogma is allowed to override the common good.

[LeftishBrit]

2. I am speechless.

[Nihil]

3. Think it will stop there?

> The move is being considered at a time when the government is
> cutting 10,000 publicly funded university places.

Cut back the places then sell the "extra" places to the highest bidders.

Great "education" policy you've got there ... bastards!

:grr:

[ikri]

4. Who didn't see this coming?

They've backed down from the proposal already because of the massive uproar that it has caused but they've already floated the idea of allowing some (read Russell Group) universities to privatize so they can compete. In reality it would move them into the same moulds as Yale and Harvard where you go if you have the money & the academic qualifications are a secondary consideration.

How else are you going to maintain the rich elite in a class above us proles?