- BBC News – Spending Review: Universities 'to face £4.2bn cut'
This *has* be delibarately leaking of a massively inflated figure, so as to make the real figure seem much more palatable when it eventually comes out. It just has to. The alternative is simply unthinkable.
No, I think this is the figure. Browne’s claculations are predicated on this sort of cut to the teaching budget. I think they really do believe that they can cut this much from the HEFCE budget, and it will all be made up by increasing fees, and only a few badly run institutions will go to the wall.
Beacuse they are complete cretins.