Quote Originally Posted by World's End Stella View Post
Well, I'll admit that my modern English history is limited to post 95 when I arrived. And even that isn't very good.

But it was Blair that wanted to get the post secondary education numbers up to 50% wasn't it? And didn't he dumb down A levels and let pretty much every institution call themselves a university in order to do that?
Yes, yes and no, in that order. In fact it is the Tories again now opening the route to university status for the private sector.