OPINION - University fees and student debt of £50,000 are a disgrace — let's stop putting the old before the young

Who, apart from the very wealthy, could bring themselves to go to university these days? Three years of mostly less-than adequate teaching, a lot of it on Zoom, an uncertain at best transition into the workplace and a whacking great loan that you’ll spend the next 40 years repaying isn’t exactly the most tantalising proposition.