We all benefit from higher education – so why should only students bear the costs?

‘I haven’t been to war or to prison yet, but I am fairly certain the chancellor would hold it only right that as a taxpayer I bear the costs for others to do so.’ Photograph: Jon Bower/Alamy

Rachel Reeves thinks it is “not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so” (Economics viewpoint, 1 February). Higher education – nay, all education – is the public good that enables safe infrastructure, healthcare, scientific and technological innovation, and the many benefits of the UK’s creative arts economy. I haven’t been to war or to prison yet, but I am fairly certain that Reeves would hold it only right that as a taxpayer I bear the costs for others to do so.
Lucy Hartley
Glasgow

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