“Students are treated like consumers, and the universities have benefited massively from that, so they can’t really complain when students act like consumers and don’t accept these kinds of changes to their contracts which diminish quality and limit the scope of their learning” #AcademicSky#UKUnis

UK universities warned of more legal action over course closures

Goldsmiths and Chichester cases could be start of rising tide of court challenges from aggrieved students, lawyers say

Treating unis like centres of commerce has been a disastrous policy choice for UK HE. We need a social model in university education. Using financial rationales over social needs for keeping or letting go of fields of study is barbaric and anti-social. Students are right on multiple fronts.