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Sir David Behan, the OfS chairman, says a university going bust “isn’t imminent now”, but to reduce the risk higher education needs to be “radically reimagined”.

“We don’t want boom and bust, where one year we’re up, the next year we’re down. That doesn’t help anybody.”

His brother committed suicide at just 15 years old in 1983, his parents divorced and his “hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana was going through the oil bust.”

The plan's answer to the oil bust is to tear down barriers protecting public land, allowing oil and gas companies to expand their operations there.

For all the claptrap over the decades about booting people out, this country’s leaders quickly realize their error and bust out the proverbial welcome mat just as quickly.