Higher Education is in financial crisis – and a closure could ruin a northern town

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Jul 10, 2025

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Graduates celebrate at UCLan – now the University of Lancashire Pic: *University of Lancashire*

Ever since the Conservative government completed the marketisation of higher education by lifting the recruitment cap on student numbers in 2015, there have been fears that a university would go to the wall. It hasn’t happened yet, but now certain politicians ha…

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Kevin Gopal