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Higher education reaches new lows

Even assuming a student is lucky enough to attend a university where they have individual tutorials, or where the lectures are of a high quality, how many students today truly consider it to be worth upwards of £9,000 per annum?

One response to this mercenary question is that it misses the point. Of course, if all you want from your encounter with a university tutor is information, you could probably get better value from Google or Teach Yourself books.

The educative experience – this is how the

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