Individuals not the state should pay for higher education FROM Economist

From the proposition's opening remarks by Professor Alison Wolf:

"A university education is of enormous and direct benefit to the individual. A major reason for its value is that only some people have it. So the individual, and not the taxpayer, should pay for it. There are important and pressing calls on the resources of the government. Using taxpayers’ money to help a sub-set of young people to earn high incomes in the future is not one of them."