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  Didn't go to uni myself but did ONC and HNC then an OU degree in my own time and at mainly my own cost with a small grant to cover part of the fees. But I did work in a uni for 35 years and saw tremendous changes.
  
  The ability and commitment of students coming in has gone down dramatically, about a third of students doing our bioscience degrees had to take remedial maths courses and I even had one who couldn't divide by 10. Many students now think that their commitment is purely the financial one of paying the fees to effectively buy the degree without the effort from themselves, and such is the pressure on unis and departments to get high in the league tables that there is a reluctance to fail a student.
  
  The worst change was Tony Blair's idea that 50% of young people should go to university when 50% of jobs don't need degrees. A lot of qualifications that were better taken part-time when doing and learning a job are now full-time degree courses and totally inappropriate for the learning methods at universities and the needs of the future job.

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