According to Tony Bates, "it has become clear to me that public post-secondary education, at least here in North America and also to some extent in Europe, is facing an existential crisis. No-one wants to pay the costs of the existing system." This is not necessarily a bad thing, he says. "We have postsecondary education systems that were built for another time and another world. They were built for a very small elite, to serve very different purposes than today's universities and colleges." This means things have to change. "It is not enough then for universities and colleges to whine for more money. It's not coming. They need to re-think, not so much their purpose, but their whole modus operandi." I think he's right on all counts, and look forward to seeing - and commenting on - his proposed blog series on the problem.
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