The free-market gamble: has Covid broken UK universities?
Last modified on Sun 17 Jan 2021 11.11 EST In 2018-19 Manchester City FC had revenues of £535.2m. Manchester United had £627m. The University of Manchester made more than £1bn – not far short, in other words, of the combined income of the city’s two global sporting brands. This is in many ways a cause for celebration, a sign of the economic power of higher education, of British success in attracting foreign students and the high fees that they pay, of the contribution that universities can make to the prosperity of their host cities. But, for a billion-pound business, you might have ex...
Source: theguardian.com