Regarding the WTBTS crackdown on higher education , the crackdown started a couple of years ago:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/156044/1/Further-Education-WTS-ups-the-pressure
We have a couple of elders / ms who have children at university - I think that the elders have given them a degree of slack but maybe this will be the final straw & they will be removed. It is a shame as they are decent guys.
Quite astonishing how things have turned around since the early 90's
w92 11/1pp.19-20 pars.16-17 Education With a Purpose So when parents and young Christians today, after carefully and prayerfully weighing the pros and cons, decide for or against postsecondary studies, others in the congregation should not criticize them. If Christian parents responsibly decide to provide their children with further education after high school, that is their prerogative.
Policy 2011 So when parents and young Christians today , after carefully and prayerfully weighing the pros and cons , decide for or against postsecondary studies , others in the congregation should criticize them. If the father is an appointed man , the rest of the body will automatically have an elders meeting and after discussing ten questions from the Society will decide whether or not to delete the brother. If Christian parents irresponsibly decide to provide their children with further education after high school , that is not their prerogative and is against the societies instruction.