The report welcomed the arrival of more low-cost airlines but said that "difficulties were emerging", especially when carriers cancelled flights that were under-subscribed.
But if, as at the Academy I visited in Lewisham, good GCSE results doubled in a year, and a school once under-subscribed, now five times over-subscribed, how is that a denial of public service values?
Mr Willetts told delegates he wanted Hefce to look at ways of making the system more "flexible" so a popular university might be given extra places while those that are under-subscribed will have their numbers cut.