This Is Why Higher Education Shouldn’t Be Free

Coming from a low-income family — please, don’t make higher education free.

The empty lecture halls of free tuition. Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

There are many policies which sound fantastic when you say them out loud. “Let’s make higher education free for all!” is one of them.

This high-minded, lofty ideal has been a talking point in British politics for a decade at least. The Liberal Democrats, entering into their 2010…