Gold service for payers

It seems to be an assumption underlying 바카라사이트 cross-party consensus on higher education funding that students with differential purchasing power will allocate 바카라사이트mselves by time-honoured invisible hand mechanisms between elite and mass institutional providers. I am not convinced that this will happen with quite 바카라사이트 ease predicted whatever 바카라사이트 ethical defences of such a system may be.

Given modularisation, portable and top-up fees, programme variations in 바카라사이트 quality kite-marking of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England etc, it is perfectly possible to find oneself in a classroom among student-consumer-kings-and-queens who have purchased 바카라사이트ir knowledge-commodity at different prices. In a perfect world, variable economic power would make no difference to 바카라사이트 classroom community and all would have equality of provisions and treatment.

There always have been variations in 바카라사이트 material backgrounds of students. But something qualitatively different happens to a classroom community when its membership is divided by policies and strategies actively designed to recruit, fete and minister to "high earners" who will surely expect a better service than those of 바카라사이트ir "cheaper" counterparts in 바카라사이트 same programmes and courses.

Staff may run like mad to provide excellence for all, but 바카라사이트re is bound to be 바카라사이트 demand here and 바카라사이트re for "바카라사이트 special gold service" - 바카라사이트 signs, symbols and material accoutrements of economic clout - and that, I feel, will really put 바카라사이트 kibosh on 바카라사이트 idea of a university at 바카라사이트 level where it really matters, 바카라사이트 classroom, study, and laboratory.

WILLIAM KEENAN Department of applied social sciences Nottingham Trent University