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Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Singapore, and China, there are calls for extending university programs so that students can obtain a broad, liberal education, in the hope that graduates will be more inclined to experiment and innovate.
What drove them to reject the party completely was a policy debate on restructuring “cram schools” – expensive private institutions that prepare high-school seniors for their university entrance examinations.
At Nanyang Technological University, females comprised only 27% of the undergraduate computer-science program in 2015-2016, despite accounting for half of all undergraduates at the university.
Why exclude education, especially university education, from the free market (and its competitive pressures)?
"Free" education is not really free, because a university student from out of town must pay for accommodation, food, and other services -- in Poland these costs are equal to a sum larger than half of the average salary.
Otherwise, a "free" university education will remain patently discriminatory in favor of wealthy students from university towns.
In general, people recognize which university education is good and which produces only a sham degree.
Thirdly, East European countries are too poor to pay from the state budget (as in France or Germany) for quality university education that comes free of direct charge to each student, regardless of means.
More of them are university educated, and, of this group, a majority is female.
They want university campuses, in particular, to be more open.
Thanks to generous US aid --Taiwan was for several decades second only to Israel in the amount of American aid received --Taiwan could send its best university students, especially engineers, to study abroad.
That is why, in my financial statement in the first week of December, I announced that we would lift the cap on the number of university students in the UK.
Access to higher education is a basic prerequisite for economic success, and we need to ensure that Britain can compete with the likes of the US and South Korea, which send a much higher proportion of their young people to university.
In the US, environmental concerns have prompted some university campuses and at least 18 national parks to ban the sale of bottled water.
But Aishetu persevered, and she is now a 23-year-old university student.
According to a 2015 study by the World Economic Forum, “while more women than men are enrolling at university in 97 countries, women make up the majority of skilled workers in only 68 countries and the majority of leaders in only four.”
For example, the two dominant state-owned TV channels are under strict Social Democratic supervision, and the party also controls professorial appointments and academic research through politicization of funding agencies and university boards.
We fear that spending more money without changing archaic university rules would produce more waste, not more research output.
It would only increase the power, prestige, and resources of entrenched lobbies of established university professors who often prevent entry and competition.
Bernard Madoff who hailed from down-market part of New York City and attended a middling university will spend time behind bars, but none of the titans of Wall Street with blue-chip pedigree will ever do so.
Europe's University ChallengeThe university systems in the US and Continental Europe couldn't be more different.
European universities are generally based on three misguided principles: taxpayers rather than students pay for university education; faculty appointments are governed by public sector contracts and university procedures are often centralized and almost always inflexible; salaries amongst teachers tend to be equalized as well as teaching quality amongst universities.
Having taxpayers cover the costs of university education is indeed redistributive, but in the wrong direction--the beneficiaries are most often the children of comfortable European families.
Even taking a generous view, the best that can be said is that the system is neutral insofar as redistribution is concerned, because the wealthiest pay more taxes and use more university services.
In fact, this is probably the true motivation of Europe's free public university system: to maintain the state's monopoly on higher education.
But competition is as important as financing in determining a university's quality, because competition increases the merit of the product.
Of course, love of research and teaching is why many people join university faculties in the first place, but why not give these noble sentiments a helping hand with appropriate financial incentives?
Low salaries are often part of an implicit bargain: in exchange for the bad pay, university administrators close their eyes to lazy teaching and research.
Moreover, if salaries are low, how can university deans stop their faculty members from scouring the country to do lucrative consulting?
Also, the private nature of contracts between an American university and its professors creates healthy competition for talent and a flexible and efficient market for scientists.
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