Cambridge University ‘may go private’
Cambridge University may be forced to go private amid fears a rise in tuition fees is not enough to allow it to compete with elite institutions in the United States, it was claimed yesterday.
The university is considering the possibility of breaking free of Government control following claims a proposed reform of higher education will undermine its global standing.
It comes just days after a review of university finance called for the existing £3,290 a year cap on tuition fees to be scrapped in conjunction with the axing of almost all direct state funding for degree courses …