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Hugo Rifkind

University tuition fees are a tax. Accept that, and maybe we can make them work

3 April 2014

2:00 PM

3 April 2014

2:00 PM

Regardless of how many brains David Willetts has got, it’s not surprising that tuition fees are a mess. They’re a mess because they are a tax, and intended to do the sort of job for which taxes were invented, yet are also pretending not to be one. It’s like needing a dog but buying a cat, and then expecting it to catch a stick.

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