The Guardian: 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income

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outlawauron said:

ReimTime said:

That and, to copy myself from a post above,  how Administrators and other higher ups - when making budget cuts - seem to turn their attention to cutting school funding or nickeling and diming through parking passes etc instead of taking a cut to their own salary. At least that is the way it seems to me.

Continually they'll chip a way at funding and let students foot the bill, because they know we don't have much of a choice if we want a post-secondary education. Textbooks, parking passes, student association fees etc etc. In German public schools students (including foreign) pay ~$200 a semester as a total all-encompassing fee and have a city-wide bus pass thrown in.

So ridiculous

There are always some caveats to this. Looking up rates that are charged, they seem pretty similar to what you'd see at universities in the US.

The biggest issue in making international comparisons is that education is largely legislated at state level, not national level. For instance, my state university has free tuitiion for all students who live in that state (through the TOPS program) who keep up certain GPA requirements (that are fairly easy). So, it's not like everyone in the US is completely screwed when it comes to school. There are so many scholarships, grants, and programs available to students, that many can get college for free. My wife was paid money by the state and federal government to go to school. :-/

For the rest of the post, I agree that administrators see themselves as sacred cows. No one wants to cut their own salary. Spreading out cost through hidden fees is pretty terrible, but that's how things are in most industries dependant on recurring customers (I think about rent tenants, airline customers, etc).

Really? I had no idea, that is good to hear. See the biggest thing when it comes to my area - to do with scholarships and grants that is - is that many are not even applied for and are thus wasted. There are a huge amount of scholarships and grants here too but almost nobody applies for them; it's quite sad really. A lot of them are virtually unheard of too unless you specifically look for them - which is probably why many go unclaimed annually. For instance, the Japanese-Mennonite scholarship of Canada, which you must write a short essay for in the application. It is open to all Canadian residents, but unless you had an in to the community or stumbled upon the web page - like I did - you will never even find out about it due to virtually no advertisement. There is a very small pool of students that extensively research scholarships/grants which is a shame.

I wish education wasn't associated with being an industry tbh

2 terms:

global unconditional basic need coverage and one child policy

Switzerland and Ontario are dabbling in basic needs funding. It will be interesting to see how it pans out in both cases.

Many developed nations like my own (Canada) have low maternity rates due to the cost of raising children, and the population is otherwise increased every year with immigrants. We aren't really having any population issues, and once the baby-boom gen dies out we'll probably need to start having more kids again.

But I assume you are talking about developing nations like India whose population is increasing exponentially and whom have a lot of problems because of it. Once we get disease/poverty/hunger/proxy war under control in developing areas - I think that would be the time to impose a one child policy.