1.Higher education serves public benefits as well
as private ones. These require financial support if these benefits are to
continue to be provided.2. Public universities are necessary to build and
maintain confidence in public debate.3.Public universities have a social mission,
contributing to the amelioration of social inequality, which is the corollary
of the promotion of social mobility.4.Public higher education is part of a
generational contract in which an older generation invests in the wellbeing of
future generations that will support them in turn.5.Public institutions providing similar programmes
of study should be funded at a similar level.6.Education cannot be treated as a simple consumer
good; consumer sovereignty is an inappropriate means of placing students at the
heart of the system.7.Training in skills is not the same as a
university education. While the first is valuable in its own terms, a
university education provides more than technical training. This should be
clearly recognised in the title of a university.8.The university is a community made up of diverse
disciplines as well as different activities of teaching, research and external
collaboration. These activities are maintained by academics, managers,
administrators and a range of support staff, all of whom contribute to what is
distinctive about the university as a community.9.Universities are not only global institutions.
They also serve their local and regional communities and their different
traditions and contexts are important

What do you think of the above points?
Is the government confused on the real purpose of Public Higher Education. What about for profit providers should they be treated the same as public universities would they bring the same benefits?