The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education
Kevin Carey, Huffpost, Highline, 2019/04/04
"Just a few years ago," writes Kevin Carey, "universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here's the little-known and absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead." I'm not sure how little-know it is; after all, the sector's failure has been chronicled over 20 years in these pages. But the core observation is dead on. More...