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Has More Meant Worse?
Thursday 21 September 2006 9:00-9:45 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Thursday 21 September 2006 21:30-22:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Martha Kearney continues the series telling the story of how student life and our universities have been transformed by six decades of expansion. Sixty years ago, university was very much a minority pursuit, but today the government's stated aim is to get half of all young people into higher education.
Martha Kearney hosts a live studio debate exploring the consequences of the 50-year transformation of British universities. The number of people winning a place at university has massively expanded, but has more meant worse? Is there any agreement, even now, about what a university is for? And have we reached the end of the process of change, or has it barely begun?
