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Has your spouse seen this video? If not please watch it. I would be curious if you could debunk/shed more light on some of the issues it raises: http://www.pbs.
by angstrom 16y ago
Has your spouse seen this video? If not please watch it. I would be curious if you could debunk/shed more light on some of the issues it raises:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/view/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/view/
My concern about for-profit education is that its interest is focused more on the investor and less on the student outcomes. Students are admitted fairly easily and loans from for-profit banks in addition to any federal funding create what looks like a ponzi scheme taking advantage of people's aspirations. Once the pool of gullible students are dried up the scheme busts and the tax payers are the ones holding the bag.
- ataggart 16y ago>My concern about for-profit [services] is that its interest is focused more on the investor and less on the [customer]. Funny how elsewhere the profit motive aligns suppliers' actions to the demands of their extant and would-be customers, since to do otherwise would be to go out of business. Perhaps the issue here is that multiple levels of taxpayer subsidies yields a system of perverse incentives.
- forensic 16y agoWhy would a for-profit business not serve its customers? Your criticism applies to public schools far more strongly than it does to private schools. Public schools focus on pleasing their investor - the government - at the expense of their "customer" the student.