<p>The piece also has this on the topic of Harvard's "grade inflation":</p>
<p>"This year, however, examining has been a positive pleasure. This has been my first semester of teaching Harvard undergraduates, and I now understand why so many of them get A's. It's not all due to "grade inflation" by overgenerous professors, as critics have sometimes alleged. So many of these papers are outstanding that it's hard to impose a rigid distribution, imposing C's or worse on the lower third."</p>
<p>That's a very interesting article that makes a number of good points. All countries in the world that want to make higher education broadly available at good quality find that they must open their systems to private funding. That has worked well in many of the newly industrialized countries of east Asia, for example.</p>
<p>The article is a bit deceptive in that Oxbridge is 3,000 pounds for any EU citizen, and four years will often get you a masters. The tuition argument is a shady one at best.</p>
<p>for international students, tuition fees around £20.000/year and approximately £10.000 of living cost . total of around 50-60k/ years.. damn expensive</p>