This is an interesting essay by literary critic, Terry Eagleton:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/06/ac-graylings-new-private-univerity-is-odious
England's tuition costs are rising and making university education harder for the average Joe or Jane to achieve. As Mr. Eagleton indicates adding a private university to the mess in no way solves the problem; if anything, it probably makes matters worse. One wonders the best way to solve the problem...tuition increases, decreases, free education...but there is a tension between what is needed and what is recognized as valuable. How does society best recognize what is valuable and is the market the only way? As a stay-at-home mother, who gets no money, does work only my husband and children value, I cannot help but think society has to re-evaluate a lot of what is considered unimportant work.
A post-script: Stanley Fish on Governance of University in Idaho--is corporate management necessarily a bad thing for a very large institution?
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/faculty-governance-in-idaho/
And, another post-script: A view from Russia on American student debt
http://rt.com/news/us-student-education-unemployment/
What does anything mean, really, if education means debt and unemployment? How does education work in a poor society--you're talking about smart, hopeless people...maybe priorities have to change?
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
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