University (just) Worked For Me, But For Many, Expansion Has Been a Huge Disappointment

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column  

 

It is just 50 years since I graduated from what was then the shiny new University of York. I and a few hundred others had spent three years on a wooded campus entirely divorced from normal life. We had full grants and our fees were paid. I had no debts. And it was the modern world, before it existed. We did more or less exactly what we wanted, and did not do what we did not wish to. For several reasons I did not enter fully into the spirit of ...