City AM opinion piece, on UK Politics, 11 November 2026
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Read the original article on cityam.com (opens in a new tab)Len Shackleton, a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, argues that British universities are in financial, academic and cultural decline and that no party has a plan to fix them. It is a comment piece, and its argument is not a finding. Nothing in the supplied material shows a false claim, a misleading figure, a smear or a vilified community.
Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.
“Office for Students figures show that over 40 per cent of institutions are expected to have had an operating deficit in the last financial year”
The author names the source of the deficit figure and keeps its qualification that the deficits are expected, not confirmed.
“the proportion of first-class degree awards rising from seven per cent in 1993–94 to 30 per cent in 2024–25”
The grade inflation claim gives both the start and end points and the years, so the reader can see the base and period of the comparison.
“Professor Len Shackleton is editorial and research fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs”
City AM discloses the author's affiliation with the think tank that published the book he promotes, so readers know whose argument this is.
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