Leadership Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies main imageBy Felix von Wendorff. his article will try to summarize the rise of private universities in the US, and particularly the growing number of for-profit education providers, a key factor in the issue of why college education is so expensive – and getting even more so.
For those of you who have been looking at the recent developments among universities in the US, it could easily be compared to a libertarian’s wet dream: the private sector has finally been allowed to enter the higher education industry (yes, “industry”) – a “sector” which was previously successfully dominated by the government. More...