Higher education needs to be depoliticised in 2018

How can we defuse the link between higher education and party politics?

At a conference in December, Clare Callender, professor of higher education studies at the Institute of Education, University College London, called for debates around student funding to be depoliticised.

Such is the extent to which tuition fees have become an ideological and partisan issues, many of us in attendance found it difficult to conceive of discourses that were not politicised.