HARDtalk - Professor Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University

Spiralling government debts and public spending cuts; does this new economic reality spell disaster for Britain's state funded university system? The Labour Government's target was to give half of all young people a university education, but what happens to grand educational ambition when the money runs out? Professor Alison Richard is Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University. Stephen Sackur asks her whether good quality higher education open to the many, not the few, is now simply unaffordable.