Innovation in university funding

I loved this in the Guardian the other day:

If Tory ministers really want to create extra university places to improve social mobility, why shouldn’t we encourage wealthy parents to contribute to this commendable goal?

If the wealthy have the means and ministers have the motivation, the government could set up a system whereby the wealthy could sponsor universal extra places to the benefit of everybody.

We could call this innovative system “taxation”.

Mike Frost

Bristol