Chris Bennett: Deep into debt or learn-while-you-earn?

Rapid change is creating mismatches that threaten the old order of things in optics.

Educational snobbery has a lot to answer for including the economic crisis looming in tertiary education. But could that crisis lead to the unpicking of the university system?

As a parent of three kids who have recently experienced the system, it is evident schools are obsessed with getting youngsters into A-levels. Once on that patch it is all too common for pupils to be forced out for underperformance or encouraged to apply for a nebulous degree course at a third rate university. University academics have stood by as debt is piled on their students.