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For some years now, a university education has been conceived by UK governments as a universal good. At least in their rhetoric, politicians from the left and the right promote higher education as something that should be available to all those who have the aptitude to thrive in it. But what do students actually get from this experience, and what’s on offer aside from the obvious degree scroll and the family photo? Does the “transformational experience of going to university” still exist, as one British politician recently described it?
