Johnson’s mooted fees plan ‘incredibly short-sighted’

If that was the case, the experts would be arguing in favour of this. As Nick Hillman says, fees don't tend to influence student choice; and a rise in fees for arts and humanities students would, if you were right, make them more appealing. Universities would drop science courses, and stock up on more lucrative arts students. But we don't live in that world; and still, after over a decade of forced marketisation, universities aren't that mercenary.