Britain's universities are in freefall - and saving them will take more than funding | Gaby Hinsliff

Fundamental restructuring must happen, along with an honest debate about what - and who - higher education is really for Imagine a beach before the tsunami. Out at sea, the wave is gathering force, yet on the sand people are still sunbathing, blissfully unaware. That's how it feels, one professor tells me, to be working in higher education. Academics by their nature don't look outwards much, he argues, so not all have registered the risk to their profession. "But something absolutely dreadful is...