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The problem is that the opposite system - publically funded high education has even deeper flaws. Many students choose completely useless programs (straight to
by gacek 17y ago
The problem is that the opposite system - publically funded high education has even deeper flaws.
Many students choose completely useless programs (straight to unemployment), students don't fell entitled to criticize anything, and of course the universities don't treat them like paying customers.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agouh...the alternative to government intervention is more severe government intervention? the alternative is to stop having the government directly subsidize higher education through grants and loans. instead let taxpayers keep that money and fund schools themselves. do you know how the ivy leagues got to be the ivy leagues? by raising prices until demand and supply met instead of artificially low prices and quotas^1. the best plan would be to raise prices until demand is slightly lower than supply so that you have room for poor merit students. 1. colleges were quite a bit different before WW2. that's when public funding of university research really took off, due to military interest.