Arresting Decline
Alex Usher,
Higher Education Strategy Associates,
Oct 22, 2020
Alex Usher has an interesting theory to explain the lack of interest in post-secondary education funding in Canada: "It is not so much that higher education isn't seen as an answer to the problem of growth (though that is part of the issue). No, the real issue is that few people care about growth anymore." What he means by 'growth' is "policies to increase collective wealth... To make the economy richer, more productive, more able to support higher private-sector salaries and higher public-sector spending." So what's the answer? Maybe a challenge: "something like being among the world's most advanced and fairest economies by 2040." I could get behind that. But I think we'd need to look at the proposition more closely - our models of economic growth are broken, and divorced from concepts of equity and sustainability (both of which will be necessary to be an advanced and fair economy in 2040). But still. I like his thinking here.
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