The big idea: how can England’s universities survive?

The government’s laissez-faire approach has imperilled the whole system. It’s time for a radical rethinkIf you listened to ministers, you’d think that there’s a crisis of “wokeness” on campus. Every young person is apparently simultaneously an overvulnerable snowflake terrified of opinions and a yowling fighter in the culture wars. But although there might well be a problem with the diversity and range of ideas in the academy, choosing to focus on it amounts t