Brexit, tuition fees and China: my predictions for academia in 2018

The paragraph headed A tiered English System makes little sense.

The issue of tuition fees is not going away. Combined with high house prices, young people are starting to get organised and forming a significant voting block which will swing the next election. Labour will offer to drop them down to £3k and make up the shortfall with public spending. Tories will initially offer to drop them to £7k, but will then have to drop them further to match Labour as Corbyn's popularity surges again in the election period. There could be an election in 2019 as it is clear Theresa May is on borrowed time and a new leader may want an early election. Not all the top RG universities will necessarily be ok, at least not in the humanities. The public will increasingly not accept subsidising a research culture which ends up filling two empty aircraft hangers in the South West every five years. The RG has set itself up for a fall as it is so obviously elitist in its student and staff recruitment. The universities which have started to introduce more vocational modules, and are gearing up for KEF, may well grow at their expense over the next 10-20 years.