The agency of this classless elitism was to be the expanded universities.
One person in four works directly for the state.The North East, and Newcastle Gateshead in particular, have been transformed in the past two decades by regeneration programmes that built business parks, created museums and a concert hall, improved housing and schools, expanded universities and increased confidence all round.
Two others allow people to finish their primary or secondary education, and a fourth is giving cramming courses and the promise of a place in an expanded university system to 286,000 teenagers who failed to complete secondary school.Across the city and the country, such scenes are repeated.
With an expanded university roster, a swelling piggy bank, and 1.5 million users, Coursera has become a major player the recent surge of universities and for-profit education organizations looking to dominate the web.
When the financial universe was expanding, universities could often add on new things without taking away from old ones, but the universe, as higher education (and everyone else) learned in 2008, can also shrink.
While I was in Venezuela in September, Chávez announced another mission, to expand universities.
An unintended consequence of expanding universities has been a deepening social divide.
Expanding universities and encouraging increasing numbers of young people to study for degrees may not be the smartest thing to do.
"We have wonderful ambitions for expanding universities and keeping them world class and getting more kids from working class backgrounds into higher education," he said.
It was a complex phenomenon, made up of many different elements from Marxism and Maoism to rock music and recreational drugs, but it was essentially a rebellion of youth against a patriarchal old order, largely inspired by middle-aged gurus, and launched from the expanding universities of the post-war world.
He was appointed under the Welsh government's five-year Ser Cymru (Stars of Wales) project to expand universities' research capabilities in the fields of life sciences, advanced engineering, and low carbon energy and the environment.
