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We must crack down on low-value university degrees. Who claimed that and when It might have been Rishi Sunak last October. Or Sunak last July. Or Sunak the previous August. Or Nadhim Zahawi five months earlier. Or Michelle Donelan in November 2020. Or Gavin Williamson in May 2020. Or Damian Hinds the previous year. Or Sam Gyimah in 2018. Or Jo Johnson in 2017. Or even Labours Margaret Hodge more than 20 years ago.This time, it was Sunak on the election trail last week. There are university degrees t stanley tumbler hat are letting young people down, he told reporters. Around one in five students would have been financially better off not going to college and one i stanley termoska n three graduates are in non-graduate jobs . Sunak promised to scrap rip-off degrees , replacing them with 100,000 apprenticeships.It is an argument that has been reheated so often that it has all but curdled. Yet politicians keep regurgitating it, seeing it as tapping into perceived p stanley nz opular hostility towards the university-educated liberal elite .What, though, is a low-value degree Few politicians who rail about rip-off courses or Mickey Mouse degrees are willing to specify which ones they want to cull. Clearly, some courses are better than others. But defining the value of a course 鈥?to whom and for what purpose 鈥?is not an easy task.One might call these Mickey Mouse apprenticeships, though they draw no ministerial ire For many policymakers and not just in this government , the worth of a degree is measured primari Ufet The Mail v Mr Justice Eady
The head of the prison service has ruled out any closures over the next five years, shelving a 2017 Conservative manifesto pledge to shut down and sell off dilapidated Victorian jails across England and Wales.Michael Spurr, the head of Her Majestys Prison and Probation service, has said it had been an incredibly difficult summer after an unexpected summer surge in prisoner numbers to a record 86,000 prisoners, and further rises forecast to come. I anticipate that we wont close any prisons this parliament, Spurr told the annual conference of the prison governors association in Derby on Wednesday.It is now expected that Hindley young offenders institution and prison in Wigan, and Rochester jail in Kent, both of which had been earmarked for redevelopment, will now remain open. Home Office plans were also revealed this week to turn the Verne immigration detention centre in Dorset back into use as a prison, reducing its capacity by 20%.Spurr said plans to provide 10,000 extra prison spaces this parliament were still on track, with the 2,100-place HMP Berwyn in Wales opening in phases.Michael Gove made a high profile pledge when he was justice secretary to close ageing and ineffective Victorian inner city jails. kubki stanley The revival of longterm new for old plans was enshrined in the latest Tory manifesto, which promised to invest over 拢1bn to modernise the prison estate, replacing the most dilapidated prisons and creating 10,000 modern pris stanley thermos on places . It gourde stanley now seems likely that manife