Neil Stewart, Editorial Director of the Education Studio (education-studio.co.uk) gives an introduction to a round table discussion on the future of Higher Education funding and loans.
He discusses the political outlook for Higher Education funding, posing the question of whether Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to abolish tuition fees is a “Black Swan moment for tuition fees“?
A Black Swan moment being a metaphor that describes an unexpected or random event that has a major, usually negative effect, an example being the 9/11 terror attacks which saw US stockmarkets lose an estimated $1.4 trillion in the following five days.