Tag Archives: competition

business-izing higher ed: I’m not scared

A few days back, this post about higher ed in the UK appeared over on one of my favorite blogs, Fem­i­nist Philoso­phers. Here’s the big quote: “Busi­ness sec­re­tary wants stu­dents and par­ents to be treated more like cus­tomers in pro­pos­als to over­haul higher edu­ca­tion.” The orig­i­nal poster wor­ries that “uni­ver­si­ties get put under a great

competition is as american as apple pie, except in education

Recently, I saw the above video on Face­book. Basi­cally, it illus­trates the argu­ment that a pub­lic option in health care would com­pete against pri­vate insur­ers to the ben­e­fit of those cov­ered under both kinds of plans. This argu­ment seems like it is sup­posed to appeal to the market-minded among us, who are into com­pe­ti­tion amongst