INTRODUCTION
Old men have to learn not to say,"I told you so". Nevertheless there are so many events which we opposed then and deplore now that one sometimes longs to point this out, and a blog seems a good way of letting off steam.
How's this for starters? If (in Britain) you convert first-rate polytechnics into second-rate universities is it not inevitable that [a] you will create a class-system of universities in which the top ones will regard the bottom ones as a joke, and [b] that a degree will lose both its cachet in society and its value in in the labour market? Discuss.