We have a deeply disaffected teaching profession, a programme of academisation from which the veneer of success is being stripped, an inspection system that has lost all credibility and a generation of young people leaving education burdened by debt and denied the liberating power of education by an obsession with testing and tables.
"I also think it is unethical for a generation of leaders who by and large benefited from free higher education to burden the generations behind them in this way," said the University of Canberra's vice-chancellor, Stephen Parker.
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It comes out that combining chemoprophylaxis and education, the burden of TB can be reduced by 80% in 10 years.
To eliminate stunting in the longer term, these interventions should be supplemented by improvements in the underlying determinants of undernutrition, such as poverty, poor education, disease burden, and lack of women's empowerment.
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The debate about three-year medical school curricula has resurfaced recently, driven by rising education debt burden and a predicted physician shortage.
We believe the recent resurgence of interest in three-year curricula is warranted in light of the projected physician shortage and the need to alleviate the growing education debt burden that encumbers our medical school graduates.
In addition to citing the growing education debt burden and projected physician shortages as primary reasons to support three-year medical school curricula, proponents note that some residency program directors and some medical education leaders have questioned the value of the fourth year of medical school as currently structured.
The potential advantages of three-year curricula, such as the new programs described above, include reduced education debt burden and more rapid entry into clinical practice, transitional pathways into medical school for those with appropriate experiences, and redirection of the fourth year of medical school to create opportunities for enriching medical education.
