We need a simple, straight talking education programme that enables consumers to make the market work for them.
With US college enrollment declining for two straight years, education experts say Sweet Briar represents the canary in the coal mine for similar institutions.
"I've got another four, maybe five, years before I get a job and going straight from education to employment with £50,000 of debt is concerning".
The student loan direct lending program saves $61 billion that was supposed to go straight to education, but unions cut a deal with the White House to reduce the excise tax.
But today's playwrights move from higher education straight into theatre, often without having worked in the wider world.
Among Britain's school-leavers, one in three now go straight to higher education; barely one in 10 take an apprenticeship.
It will take an active government to reverse this stagnation — from prenatal and early childhood education straight up through adult technical training and investments in scientific and other research.
It also fails to recognise that many new, cherished and expensive interventions – such as steroids for head injury in medicine, or the Scared Straight programme in education – can turn out to do more harm than good, when subjected to fair tests.
Now, I think you're doing your job as a journalist or film-maker if you're pointing out things that are wrong but a mischievous part of me was like: "OK, what if I gave them two hours of no problems, all solutions?" Yes, I thought it was going to be about the military industrial complex and instead it was straight into sex-education lessons in French schools.
My Bendigo schooling saw me attend church services, sing hymns at school assembly and achieve straight As in religious education.
A surgeon has to provide reassurance (people are often scared and want to go straight to surgery), some education about gallstone disease and diet, perhaps a prescription for pain; in a few weeks, the surgeon might follow up.
