Re:Career opportunities
by toyg on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @09:55AM
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> Are school administrators just vacuuming up all the extra money?
Yes. There have been quite a few stories showing how admin in education is booming. Also, growth in numbers requires growth in facilities, which are a big money sink for most education institutions; you could argue a lot of this extra money is actually going to the building sector (and again, admin required for all these projects) as well as the constant churn that is IT upgrades.
> Grants and scholarships from the state have shrunk and shrunk and shrunk.
The more the State pumps into loans (driven by student numbers, and carrying a considerable management overhead), the less it has for direct subsidies. In a situation where overall revenue from taxation is fixed or falling in real terms, that makes sense and it does not contradict TFA.
> A college education is more likely to lead to pulling you out of poverty than a lack of one.*
I agree there, but it depends on what "pulling out of poverty" means. A degree might help you get a job, but current trends mean that you might still end up being poor -- just a working one.
Rather than enforcing class status through education tiers, a progressive agenda should concentrate on restoring dignity to regular jobs. Sadly this is seen as class warfare, whereas platitudes about getting everyone and his dog into 4 years of subsidised drinking go down fine with all sectors of the electorate.
Yes. There have been quite a few stories showing how admin in education is booming. Also, growth in numbers requires growth in facilities, which are a big money sink for most education institutions; you could argue a lot of this extra money is actually going to the building sector (and again, admin required for all these projects) as well as the constant churn that is IT upgrades.
> Grants and scholarships from the state have shrunk and shrunk and shrunk.
The more the State pumps into loans (driven by student numbers, and carrying a considerable management overhead), the less it has for direct subsidies. In a situation where overall revenue from taxation is fixed or falling in real terms, that makes sense and it does not contradict TFA.
> A college education is more likely to lead to pulling you out of poverty than a lack of one.*
I agree there, but it depends on what "pulling out of poverty" means. A degree might help you get a job, but current trends mean that you might still end up being poor -- just a working one.
Rather than enforcing class status through education tiers, a progressive agenda should concentrate on restoring dignity to regular jobs. Sadly this is seen as class warfare, whereas platitudes about getting everyone and his dog into 4 years of subsidised drinking go down fine with all sectors of the electorate.