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By: Aveek Bhattacharya

Aveek Bhattacharya is chief economist at the Social Market Foundation

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  • Is going to university actually worth it — and who should decide?

    What are universities for?  It’s the sort of navel-gazing question that academics love to pose, and the sort of deep philosophical terrain that pragmatic policy people fear getting sucked too far into.  But with the government and regulators looking at new ways to measure and compare the quality of different degrees, it is a conversation [...]

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