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How did universities ever manage to operate whilst charging much lower/no tuition back when there was not a group like this?
by orhmeh09 7y ago
How did universities ever manage to operate whilst charging much lower/no tuition back when there was not a group like this?
- C1sc0cat 7y agoThey only catered for a much smaller group basically the elites and a few lucky Grammar school kids.
- speuleralert 7y agoHere is a related and comprehensive article that dives into the subject, for anyone interested: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/15/increasingly-competitive-college-admissions-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/15/increasingly-competiti...
- NotPaidToPost 7y agoState funding. Funding was shifted to fees. Although considering how much of student loans is not expected to be repaid it's arguable that a lot is still state funded...
- addicted 7y agoThey were funded by the state. Funding which has been systematically cut back over the past 2 decades.
- rchaud 7y agoThere were a lot fewer university students back when you could attend a polytechnical institute and make a living wage in a factory. With globalization and deindustrialization, Britain is now a "knowledge economy" so you have hundreds of thousands more in universities.