Lurking in the long grass

摘要

Fairness featured heavily in the election campaign. So did fiscal sustainabil-ity. Exactly what either concept means when applied to university students is set to become a political hot potato. On May 20th and 21st a select band of economists, policy wonks and university vice-chancellors were expected to urge that students be charged more for their studies. Should the official review set up by Labour into funding higher education accept that recommendation, as most observers think likely, it could turn the uneasy alliance in power between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats into open warfare.