Colleges in Crisis
William C. Symonds,
Business Week,
May 09, 2003
I haven't really followed this side of the equation in OLDaily, concentraing instead mainly on the use of technology in learning. But over the last year I've seen dozens of stories of this ilk: tuitions rising, colleges closing or merging, the system in growing disarray. The upshot is this: if the richest nation in the world cannot afford to educate its children the traditional way, what hope does the rest of the world have? I have long argued that, as alternatives became available, governments would be increasingly reluctant to fund such an expensive and inefficient form of learning. I was right, except for one thing: governments aren't necessarily waiting for the alternatives. They are cutting funding now.
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