An in-depth look at funding for UK universities. Of particular note, like the United States, is the role international students’ play in funding Universities. Equally important is how students are beginning to view their education on a cost-value basis. A student states “(Education) it’s becoming monetized. When students go to a lecture they think, ‘I haven’t got my £40 to £50 of lecture there’, rather than, ‘Is this interesting?’”
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Vocational training should be an option for some students, the article points out one such success story. JPMorgan Chase has launched New Skills for Youth, a $75mm initiative to design and deliver career-focused education in high schools and community colleges.
A look at Carl Barney’s For-Profit Colleges. Another example of the need for cost benefit analysis of attending any public, private, or for-profit college/university.
“Should universities offer affirmative action for conservatives and evangelicals?”
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Yet more evidence of the importance of learning a second language early. Language instruction remains the Achilles heel of US education. Independent school education is excellent in most regards, yet foreign language instruction, for many schools, remains a weakness.
An in-depth look at Massachusetts’s struggling community colleges. Community colleges are a complicated issue: their missions are not always well-defined, they serve an extremely wide range of students, suffer from a lack of funding, and compete for legislative focus. The path from community college to a four-year college is perhaps best mapped in California where “nearly one-third of University of California system students start at a community college before graduating from a UC campus”.
“It is the ‘failure-deprived Stanford and Harvard students’ as Ms. Lahey’s book calls them – who are best equipped to fail successfully. For these elites, failure becomes not so much a crisis as a modern-day finishing school, where everyone graduates with the perfect resume of mettle-building career challenges.”
