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| The higher ed bubble is bursting, so what comes next? |
| 2011-12-04 |
| Instapundit in Washington Examiner A couple of years back, I suggested in these pages that higher education was facing a bubble much like the housing bubble: An overpriced good, propped up by cheap government-subsidized credit, luring borrowers and lenders alike into a potentially disastrous mess. Subsequent events have proved me right as students have begun to think twice about indebtedness and schools have begun to face pressure over tuition. For higher education, costs have skyrocketed even as the value of their product has been declining, and people are starting to notice. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 ...a return to accountability for public school There. Fixed that spelling problem. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-12-04 22:34 |
| #3 What comes next? The lower education bubble bursting, and a return to accountability for public school techers. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2011-12-04 20:27 |
| #2 Lazy and inefficient Human Resource departments created credentialism thus giving former educational institutions power to print and distribute paper affirming intelligence and skill like the Wizard of Oz. Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-12-04 19:15 |
| #1 Learning replaces credentialism. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-12-04 18:23 |