Lovely sentiment. Unfortunately it has to be paid for. If not the person using it, then someone else. You won’t get any traction with the taxpayer without showing that it is value for money. We’ve already reached the point where we have too many graduates, not too few.

Yes it would be lovely if we could all go to University without any regard to what future use our degree in Comparative Literature might have. But then it would be lovely if we could fund the NHS better. And have everyone employed at a decent wage. And increase the pension so people didn’t have to scrape by.

But, as my mother says “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride”.