Vince Cable faced next to no questioning on his hugely controversial plans for a
graduate tax on Today this morning. Instead he was allowed to make an annoucement, was thanked as “Doctor Cable” by a reverential Jim Naughtie, and left to trundle back up Mount Sinai
where the BBC seems to think he lives.
There are plenty hard questions to ask. The main one is what I regard as a national scandal: young people being missold useless degrees that benefit neither students nor society. They get fed this line, about how graduates earn more, and are led to believe that the letters MA after your name mean an extra £7k or more, for life. You can bet such studies merge together Oxford degrees in Science with media studies courses to claim that the degree – not the subject or institution – is what matters.
Media studies is a particular bugbear of mine.
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