There was a Guardian story online about the finances of UK unis but I don't think it was in print. Somehow it seem more is online than in print.
However there are stories in Sunday Times that might have been in Guardian. Mix of alarm that mobile phones are used in schools and celebration that social media supports classic media such as books and bookshops.
News review page 21 Norway's schools get kids off phones without hang-ups. Phones locked up at the strat of the school day. But then page 3 TikTok teens flock to Edwardian bookshop - today's adolescants prefer Daunts in Marylebone to a trip to Oxford Street.
Back to Norway, column 5 - "The pupils are also adamant that phones help them learn. Mina citesTikTok videos that jazz up "boring" science projcts,whileWesam goes to YouTube for explainers on difficult equations."
Head teacher Heidi Augestad says "It's too harsh to tell them they are wrong, but they are".
Also in Sunday Times Business section a story about UK retail , page 6. Between 2018 and 2023 there was a collapse of two thirds in value of UK shopping centres. This was during and after lockdown. Back to Norway and comment from puils-
"When we were at home the whole time we were mostlt learningon ourphones" says Mina "You expect us to stop when the coronavirus is over?"
https://youtu.be/FfrP2SO_IoU?si=2Aar-chsHHJITXla learner voice
This video was uplodaded ahead of BETT 2024. BETT is not really a show for mobile phones though there is now a stronger section for FE and HE as well as schools.
So somehow in the near future it seems possible that learners will arrive at university able to use a mobile phone, even AI. though the phones will have been locked away during school.
The campus is then back to normal. Nothing happened to campus valuations between 2018 and 2023. That is as reported in Guardian and Sunday Times.Links / page numbers please if this is unfair or out of date.