Peter Ainsworth

Dec 4, 2024 | capx.co | Peter Ainsworth

4 December 2024 @PAinsworthFAIR Picture: Getty Images The average graduate now starts their career about £100,000 behind their peers The government pays universities to recruit students, not to educate them productively What universities are paid should be linked to the success of their graduates The UK’s higher education sector is failing on multiple fronts: 70% of universities are set to lose money next year, and students are suffering badly from degrees that have ever shrinking value. The...

Nov 28, 2024 | insider.iea.org.uk | Peter Ainsworth

By Peter AinsworthUrgent financial crisis: The government’s inflation based increase in 2025 tuition fees from £9,250 to £9,535 will generate only £330 million, less than the £370 million burden created by its budget. With university finances set to continue to deteriorate, and some institutions on the brink of failure, the UK’s global standing as a toptier higher education provider is at stake. This crisis necessitates bold, innovative reforms.

Nov 27, 2024 | iea.org.uk | Peter Ainsworth

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Jun 20, 2023 | conservativehome.com | Peter Ainsworth

Peter Ainsworth is the Managing Director of Consulting AM and is the author of Universities challenged: funding higher education through a free-market ‘graduate tax’. Despite two major reviews within living memory aimed at creating a sustainable funding system for home undergraduates, the system is failing. Students accrue massive debts for degrees of questionable value, taxpayers face enormous losses on defaulted loans, and universities are getting into financial difficulties.

May 19, 2023 | hepi.ac.uk | Peter Ainsworth

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Peter Ainsworth, the author of Setting Universities Free: How to deliver a sustainable student funding system (2022)Picture the 1930s economic slump, absent Keynes’s challenge to prevailing thought. Classical economists were stuck with the mindset that laissez-faire would ultimately produce a recovery.