We, academic members of staff of Warwick University, express our deep concern at the undue haste
with which the government is proceeding to enact legislation to change the principle upon which the
funding of higher education is based. We believe that these proposed changes have the potential to
inflict irreversible damage upon our culture of education, learning and research. We strongly support
the call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in England and Wales.