Rishi Sunak justifies cutting university funding because they're "full of people who don’t vote for us anyway." https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-told-meeting-hed-30370275
@adambienkov public funding for higher education is already pitifully low - and private funding incredibly high - the ratio is the most extreme across the OECD dataset. Public spending is 4th lowest as a percentage of GDP on HE - less than .5%! The US (which also has a lot of private funding) spends around .9 (which is around the average for the G20).
HE in the UK relies on unsustainable levels of overseas fee income.
@adambienkov
In the words of Warren Buffet:
"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning."
Sunak also knows it.