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Any scoring system can be abused once it gets captured. But the fact remains that a scoring system can also be the most effective means of exposing value capture by revealing what is happening on the inside. Scoring, like everything else, is not binary. It is dialectical.
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and media discussions remain at an almost wilfully superficial level, largely focused on whether the current loan system is ‘unfair’ to students.
It might be wise not to be too optimistic about Andy Burnham bringing miracles of delivery, and focus instead on his willingness to question the long-prevailing economic consensus; where Starmer seems to have believed ‘change’ meant a surer hand on the controls, Burnham looks …