Comparing the Conservative leadership candidates' pledges on higher education

There are three weeks to go in a Conservative leadership contest that has offered up bold policies, u-turns, and plenty of hostile briefing. On 5 September 2022, we will find out whether the Tory membership have plumped for Liz Truss, who has pitched herself as ‘the education Prime Minister’, or Rishi Sunak, who says education is the ‘closest thing we have to a silver bullet’  for improving people’s lives. They have made sweeping policy commitments on university admissions, low-earning degrees, vocational education and free speech. So what have the candidates said, and how might their policies be implemented?