Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Students & The Cost of Higher Education

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Tim Klapdor writes about the reasons for "the end of demand driven education" in the UK. This is the idea that the system would be prepared to educate those students who wanted to learn. One reason, he writes, is government policy, which is intended to favour the rich, and is therefore opposed to the idea of education for all. Another reason is the cost, as universities made to attempt to leverage the economies of scale as their enrollments increased. Lost in the whole discussion, he says, are the students. "No one seems willing to discuss the fact that students are being forced to prop up the higher education system as the government slowly defunds it."

Today: 3 Total: 1126 [Direct link] [Share]


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Apr 26, 2024 12:48 p.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes