Former polytechnics should lose university status, says Adonis

Labour’s former education minister Andrew Adonis says lower-performing institutions should charge lower fees

The former Labour education minister Andrew Adonis has reignited one of the oldest controversies in British education by calling for the clock to be turned back on polytechnics granted university status.

Lord Adonis told a House of Lords committee that the government’s decision 25 years ago to allow more than 30 polytechnics to take the title of university was a mistake, and argued for the removal of the status from what he termed “the lower-performing former polytechnics”.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2g1eCxJ