Give our universities freedom to follow the American way

IN THIS paper last week, Andrew Cubie called for a root-and-branch review of higher education funding, but the First Minister, Alex Salmond, has already rejected the appeal, almost without drawing breath.

Only last month, the principal of St Andrews University, Brian Lang, floated the sacrilegious idea of some universities becoming less dependable, rather than more dependable, on the state. So dumbfounded were Scotland's collectivist cognoscenti that ...