“… It is terrible that even with free fees, large sections of the lower-income majority are kept out. Clearly this needs to be fixed. But Sullivan looks at this problem through the blue-tinted glass of a right-wing, pro-cuts social discourse and says: it’s not working, so let’s scrap free fees. Poorer people aren’t going to college for the simple reason that college is nowhere near free …” (more)
[Manus Lenihan, University Times, 31 March]