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have your college and eat it too: consuming education

Today, I want to make what, to my economics-ish friends, are prob­a­bly some painfully obvi­ous points. How­ever, I had never explic­itly con­sid­ered this angle on college/education before tak­ing eco­nom­ics of edu­ca­tion last semes­ter, and I sus­pect that it’s some­thing many oth­ers of even my rather intel­li­gent friends and col­leagues have also failed to con­sider in depth. …

March 24, 2011 – 9:27 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in current reading, economics-ish, education, education policy, grad school, higher education, saw it in the news, value | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (9)

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 …

November 6, 2009 – 10:27 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in economics-ish, education, politics & political, teaching | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)