Conservative attacks on universities ‘not a vote winner’

Yes, this is a fitting way for an ugly and ignorant, populist government to go out: attacking the last remaining success the UK has had, because a lot of ignorant voters may not like research that points to the needs for major reforms.

I am not surprised that Public First found "Slightly higher levels of Conservative-voting parents wanted their children to gain a degree, compared with Labour-voting parents (31 per cent against 23 per cent).", but it does worry me that over 60% of parents don't seem to want their kids to go to Uni. So much for aspiration! When it comes to degree apprentices, I wonder how many of the 17% who wanted their kids to get a degree apprenticeship, knew what they were! Most people have never heard of them. Given that degree apprenticeships are degrees, adding them to the parents who want their kids to have degrees increases the number to 47%. As a result, I think we should ignore the whole survey as it makes no sense. Beware drawing any conclusions or following recommendations from poor research that may well be misleading.

This article is offensive to those who do not hold degrees and those who voted for Brexit. It also fails to deal with the fact that even Tony Blair's own son doesn't agree with his university policy. The article constantly says science is important but has Rishi Sunak said science degrees are not important? There are clearly too many people.with undergraduate degrees which is why the post grad population has exploded as students desperately try to stand out. This country is in desperate need of plumbers, electricians, builders etc. These jobs are highly skilled and much better paid then many jobs a degree can provide. So this whole article smacks of intellectual snobbishnes

You may feel that the Conservatives are on the way out anyway, but I believe that with that speech Sunak has singlehandedly lost the election for them. This wasn't the only bit of claptrap he spouted, the entire speech was vapourware, quite embarassing really.