12.14.2003
Warren Ellis on Higher Ed
Comicbook writer Warren Ellis, of Authority and Transmetropolitan fame (both highly recommended) weighs in on the British system of higher education:
"This week, however, I find myself sympathetic to those in higher education. The British government has finally found a way to confound the remaining few people who thought they'd voted a Labour government into place...
...However, our Chancellor, Gordon Brown, played this past weekend right into the old stereotype of a tight-fisted Scotsman with a white-knuckle grip on the purse-strings. He literally said that university education should not be free and that if we are giving our children higher education then they should pay the money back. This is referred to as 'top-up fees.' Several thousand pounds per student."
SEE ALSO: Ellis has a LiveJournal, where yesterday, he put out this thought: "What if Mr Hyde had had kids?"
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