http://exquisitelife.researchresearch.com/exquisite_life/2010/10/hepis-critique-makes-browne-look-shallow.html

According to HEPI, Browne has failed to undertake important preparatory research, gets its facts wrong, is simplistic, fails to explain its reasoning, asserts conclusions on matters of dispute, comes to conclusions on the basis of detailed but unpublished calculations, fails to properly cost its proposals, gets confused about important issues, proposes schemes that are unworkable, ignores important concerns, draws implausible or unproven conclusions – and so on.

http://www.hepi.ac.uk/455-1860/The-Independent-Review-of-Higher-Education-Funding–an-analysis.html

9. Also, some fundamental points are asserted by the Committee and taken as a given – that it is right that the contribution from government should reduce relative to the student contribution (and in many cases that it should disappear completely); and that the market is a sufficient mechanism for determining where students go to university and for making judgments about standards and quality. These are highly contested points, and their assertion as a given colours the entire report.

Policy Institute “charity” set up by one political group disagrees with policy proposed by another political group, SHOCKER!!!!

Sorry for providing an in depth look at the opposing view rather than credulously accepting the government’s position.