Scrap Fees - Fund Education Properly

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Scrap Fees - Fund Education Properly

Universities produce the doctors, nurses, engineers, scientists, sociologists, teachers, economists, writers and thinkers that our society couldn’t function without. They produce research, manufacture vaccines, respond to economic and political crises and so much more.

The business model of education has completely failed. Universities are underfunded, jobs are insecure, working-class people and people of colour are shut out, the mental and physical health of both staff and students has been degraded, politicians have straw-manned universities as battlegrounds in their deranged culture wars - all while the market model fails on its own terms. Individual spending power is hampered by debt few will realistically pay back, restricting economic growth and placing a ticking time bomb under our economy.

There is a much simpler, tried and tested, way. We need to publicly fund higher education, provide it as a public good and a human right – just like we do with the NHS and with primary and secondary education – just like many countries across Europe and around the world do. We need a model that is sustainable, that is fair and that restores the integrity and true value of education in our society.

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Scrap Fees - Fund Education Properly

Submitted February 12, 2023 at 04:55AM by 21Fulcrum https://ift.tt/3xQwFBV