LSE festival Beveridge 2.0 book review: a university education by David Willetts

In A University Education, former Minister of State for Universities and Science (2010-14) David Willetts sets out the changes he fostered during his four-year ministry and his views on what still needs to be transformed, alongside a scholarly appreciation of how the current Higher Education system and its particularly British (mainly English) features have evolved. In this review, Ron Johnston critically considers Willetts’s conception of the nature and role of universities in contemporary Britain.