This isn’t another HE Green Paper analysis piece (see WonkHE or David Kernohan for some excellent ones), but that has been the tipping point to write this post which has bugged me for a while. Politicians and commentators often talk about wanting to expand higher education. This is sometimes couched in terms of social mobility (although Vik Loveday makes a good case that mobility implies ‘escaping’ working class and should be avoided as a term), sometimes because education is seen as a social benefit, and sometimes in terms of neo-liberal productive economy. But generally, people think it’s a good idea to try and get more people, and particularly more people…