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1. It is depressing to visit Oxford or Cambridge these days. The old buildings are so wonderfully grand that they highlight the cheap, ugly and badly kept new ones.
2. Yet Oxford and Cambridge are still in relatively good shape, thanks largely to their structure of self-financing colleges.
3. But then it turned out that those students found learning Arabic or Chinese from scratch so hard that they were dropping out, incurring a further fine from the government.
4. That created a panoply of new academic courses, many of dubious merit, and kicked away a vital pillar of the higher education system, between the purely vocational further education colleges and the fully academic universities.
5. Similar stories come from Spain and Italy, where universities are plagued by rigidity and corruption.
6. The American system is not flawless. The diversity which makes the system so dynamic, also leaves it vulnerable to abuse.
7. The most important factor is diversity. America higher education is not just more varied, but has less of the crippling snobbery and resentment that accompanies variety in, say, Britain.
8. That contrasts with the two extremes across the Atlantic. In Britain, performance is so minutely measured by the state that it stultifies the efforts of the brilliant, without really rooting out the incompetent and lazy.
9. In a new book, Robert Stevens, an academic who has run colleges in both America and Britain, writes of “an alcoholic yobbish culture” among students, for whom university is principally “a rite of passage”, like national service in the army, rather than an education.
10. Visiting American students are often startled to attend lectures with no visual aids, out-of-date hand-outs and droning, inaudible speakers. Such complacency will not long survive when customers have a choice.
