Public funds are hard to replace, even in the US

By Barry Glassner. ‘Going private’ is no financial panacea, say Barry Glassner and Morton Schapiro. It’s something that university leaders in the US have been familiar with for years, and as a recent article in these pages (“Student finance: the lessons we must learn from American history”, 21 August) noted, there are lessons to be learned from the American experience. More...