ABSTRACT

Nicholas Barr and Iain Crawford, ‘Myth or Magic?’, Guardian Education, 2 December 2003, pp. 20-1.

Nicholas Barr and Iain Crawford, architects of the top-up fees policy, argue that their critics in and outside the Commons are harming the very causes they mean to support. The government’s approach is the most progressive way to provide higher education free at the point of use and redistribute resources to the worst off.