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"Privatisation" Catching On As Socialism Fails - Martin Eisenstadt - 05-16-2010 Couldn't help but notice the irony of these two stories. In Venezuela the communist dimwit Hugo Shave Ass is nationalizing a private university. Seems that someone was "offering degrees illegally" and "not meeting legal and ethical requirements." Sounds a lot like your basic cartel shill arguing against educational freedom. Now we know where they got their playbook. But in Europe (of all places) they are calling for "commercialisation" of higher education and "privatisation" of universities "in a similar way to their North American competitors." Now that the socialists have run out of other people's money to waste, it suddenly dawns on them that only the free market system can solve their problems. If even the Euros can figure it out, is there a chance this "partnerships with the world of enterprise" thing might catch on among the statist dopes who dominate US higher education? Quote:Hugo Chavez to nationalize Venezuelan private university Quote:EUROPE: Neo-liberals push university privatisation RE: "Privatisation" Catching On As Socialism Fails - ham - 05-17-2010 NEOLIBERALISM: criticizing State intervention as 'socialist' and replacing it with 'entrepreneurial organizations' so that my brother and your third cousin can still roll high while taxes are used to fund more agencies and organizations in order to show us how great unimpeded private enterprises are...what a joke. RE: "Privatisation" Catching On As Socialism Fails - RespectableGent - 05-17-2010 I've never seen a private for-profit university which hasn't been called a degree mill. Everyone knows that offering "easy degrees" is the key to a for-profit university's success. Drop outs aren't good for business after all. If Europe wants to turn its publicly-supported colleges into degree mills, so be it. Maybe Europe can fight for the title of "degree mill capital of the world". RE: "Privatisation" Catching On As Socialism Fails - Dennis Ruhl - 05-17-2010 RespectableGent Wrote:I've never seen a private for-profit university which hasn't been called a degree mill. Profit or non-profit - all the same. Instead of shareholders getting rich. faculty that does little work for lots of money is the goal in non-profits. RE: "Privatisation" Catching On As Socialism Fails - RespectableGent - 05-17-2010 Quote:Profit or non-profit - all the same. If I'm running a for-profit university my goal is to keep all of my students sending in the tuition checks. I'm in it to make a profit. Education and quality comes second. Anything which threatens the profitability of my college gets axed. I'm a businessman. Dropouts are the last thing I want. Challenging curriculum? Highly paid faculty? No way. I'll just buy some lecture videos and have my students watch those. It's natural for any for-profit university to turn into a place where one can attend for one day a week for six months and write a few papers. UoP, Strayer, and Walden University are all guilty of running watered-down classes and operating on short-paper curriculums, paying any faculty they have minimum wage. George Gollin and Co. are right to fear the for-profits, calling anything they don't like "degree mills". As the states tighten their budget, they will take Europe's lead and begin privatizing its colleges and relying on for-profits for postsecondary education. In truth, the government loves "degree mills" (low-quality schools and for-profits). It takes the burden of education off their shoulders. Why pour billions into education when there's a large for-profit sector willing to take up the slack? The state of California is already axing Calworks, its welfare division. After welfare, education will be the next to go. One day, years from now, public education will be the way of the dodo, professors being sacked and for-profit education being king. Higher education will be automated. Watch these videos, write these papers, and get out. This is the real reason why the CHEA is trying to raise a fuss with the government about "degree mills". They can already see the writing on the wall. |