Capping charges not places is the best way to ensure students gain higher qualifications

The assertion that a student demand-driven system must be joined to uncapped student contributions to create an open market is gaining undue acceptance. It is not a logically necessary proposition but an argument that is a means to higher revenue and for some a point of ideology.

Rather than an unsustainable half way step to a market, the planned mix of uncapped places and capped charges is a viable system to promote competition based on quality as the best way for students to gain a suitable higher education.
Those who propound the case for fee deregulation give the