"The dividend from higher education has played out". Imagine a world where the "dividend" from education was not measured by salary; where we were "enriched" by new ideas, or a love of poetry, or different ways of living. Instead, this is the vision driving the govt's HE review. 
The article is by the man who led the govt's review of post-18 Education. It speaks volumes for the impoverished vision that underpins how government now thinks about education - and that will drive its "reform". ft.com/content/ee5131…
Universities should always seek "value *for* money", but that value cannot be tested only *by* money. We are human beings, not just numbers on payslips. What poor custodians we have been of our rich intellectual inheritance.
