In England

Education reform and market-based solutions in England lead the Con/Lib government to try and

cut about 80 percent of the current $6.2 billion it pays annually for university teaching, and about $1.6 billion from the $6.4 billion it provides for research. 

This latest battle against education leads universities and colleges

[i]n anticipation of further cuts, many are beginning to lay off instructors, reduce the number of classes and shut down departments. Some instructors and researchers, dismayed by how little money they are being offered and worried about future financing, have abandoned Britain for more lucrative offers at universities abroad.

What does that mean as a practical matter? This:

Middlesex University said last spring that it intended to close its philosophy department. Cardiff University in Wales announced proposals to reduce the teaching staff in its modern languages department to 10 people, from 22. King’s College London said it would abolish its chair in paleography, the study of ancient handwriting — the only such post in Britain. (After an international outcry, it proposed creating a new position in “paleography and manuscript studies” that would be “fully funded from philanthropic monies.”)

 That's right cut funding so that you can have fewer educated citizens and a state-sponsored brain drain.  What is the cause of all this?  Folks like a Mr. Browne, who used to work for that paragon of private enterprise BP, whose

report also proposes withdrawing government support completely from subjects in the arts and humanities and concentrating it in areas he believes contribute more to the economy, like science and engineering.

Vote for Walker and he can do the same to the UW.