Higher education shouldn't be a market. No wonder tuition fees are failing

By Hugh Muir. All that pain, all that argument, to bring in the £9,000 fees cap – now it's close to costing us more than it's made. So why bother? Today, as the phrase goes, will be a good day to bury bad news. What to do about Vladimir Putin? What happened to flight MH370? And what kind of hash has George Osborne made of people's pensions? But for all that, there is subterranean scandal that should not pass unnoticed. The highly contentious student loans system is unravelling. Read more...