The provision of higher education in the UK has undergone dramatic changes in recent history with more private organisations entering the market. This raises an important existential question: what does it mean to be a college or a university? In this episode we consider the answer that is offered by the Supreme Court and then go on to think about whether the disruptive influence of private institutions is a good thing for the sector or means a decline in the quality of higher education.

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