This week, Charles Clarke, the education secretary, and Margaret Hodge, the minister for higher education, have been stressing the financial value of a university education and questioning the morality of forcing those without a degree to pay for the education of high-earners with one.

ECONOMIST: The battle-lines over university fees have been drawn

By the same token, those on the other side of these issues do not have an exclusive claim to morality's high-ground.

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In 1959 Sadruddin became an assistant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and applied to the job the code of morality and responsibility of his faith.

ECONOMIST: Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan