Fourthly, the introduction of a new unified funding system without a technical system to deploy it will, from next year, give the Minister a whole lot more control to play favourites in the sector, with large contestable components of funding. At the same time, it will reduce the funding of those pesky private providers, which socialists so desperately despise, and will reduce the funding for distance delivery of education, the very mode of delivery which enables flexibility for students and employers and financial viability for campuses with small classes. Who would have imagined, in these times of COVID, a disincentive to use technology enabling flexibility?