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magine running a business that has increased throughput by 62% in seven years. It sounds good doesn't it? The sector that has seen this explosive growth isn't technology driven, like ride-sharing or video-streaming, it's founded on bricks and mortar - the UK's universities. It's hard to imagine a part of the UK economy less likely to see an explosion in growth, but that's what an recent article in The Economist spelt out. Rule changes governing undergraduate recruitment have been pretty much deregulated since 2015. Higher-status universities, usually members of the elite Russell Group, are permitted to recruit as many high-scoring students as they like - targeting the £9,250 in annual tuition fees that each place filled guarantees for at least three years. This has enabled universities such as UCL to invest in transformational programmes such as the Stratford campus.