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DEPRESSING, but unsurprising, news that SA’s universities have fallen in international rankings reached us last week. I know quite a few people who work at the universities and their mood is almost entirely grim. Aside from the toxic nationalist politics that serves as a refuge for those whose arguments fail them, our best universities are also running seriously short of money. The #FeesMustFall movement, like so many leftist entities, has yet to fully lay out where the money to pay for their top-end education ought to come from. It’s natural to sympathise with people whose barrier to tertiary academic success is in the contents of their bank accounts, not their crania. It does feel immensely unjust. That’s why it’s a pity there appears to be little corollary concern about seemingly solidly middle-class students demanding that the state hijack the wealth of free citizens to pay for their nice school. Starving the universities of money disadvantages everyone and cannot be a solution....
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