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In Autumn 2010 both the Browne Report and the coalition government's Comprehensive Spending Review concluded Tee shirt Burberry that state funding for universities in England had to be slashed by 80%. For university arts and humanities subjects, this effectively means that 100% of their public funding is to be wiped out in a single stroke. In a crude attempt to backfill the gaping deficit produced in their finances by this decision, universities are thus forced to ramp up student fees, tripling them from their present level to as much as £9,000 per year per student. These will be payable from Septembr 2012 onwards. In other words, public investment in universities (taxes) is to be replaced by private debt (fees).
It's easy to see here just further evidence of a concerted ideological assault on public services (councils, health, police, etc.), each in turn to be broken up and tendered out to private contractors. More proof of a deep-rooted political drive towards privatization; a sharp shift from the engaged citizen towards the entitled consumer… While the effects of this ‘neo-liberal revolution' in higher education, as it has been called, Tee shirt Calvin Klein have so far been localized, and occasionally personalized (Sussex, Middlesex, KCL, Bristol, Glasgow, etc.), it will not be long before they are savagely felt across the entire sector, with no institution likely to escape unscathed. Nor is this egregious development peculiar to the English university system. In fact, if this can happen in England – engine of the world's fifth largest economy, home to some of the world's best universities, yet soon to have the world's most expensive higher education – then other countries should seriously sit up and take notice.
Writing in the wake of the Browne Report, James Vernon made a very telling, prescient point. In the face of Tee shirt Diesel this unprecedented and unconscionable attack on the university as a civic institution, and particularly in response to the casual depreciation of its arts and humanities education, now more than at any other time before, we need ‘to rearticulate the purpose and role of the humanities in ways which justify renewed public investment in them'. Or again: ‘The defence of public universities is intricately tied to arguments that can establish the public value of the humanities'. This Manifesto is one such attempt to rise to Tee shirt Dolce Gabbana Vernon's urgent challenge.