The devaluation of Higher Education - it's a global thing.

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I used to believe that the Blair regime here in the UK was unrealistic and downright wrongheaded when peddling its goal of shunting 50% of school-leavers into the university system, but they couldn't hold a candle to the super-scary Lumina Foundation in Indianapolis. Their target? Increasing the proportion of American adults with a college degree to 60% by 2025:

http://chronicle.com/article/Lumina-Describes-How-Far/124553/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

You can read their 116-page report here:

http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/A_stronger_nation.pdf

Story courtesy of nasblog_feed, where you can also find links to some contrasting views and opinions on this nonsense:

http://nasblog.org/2010/09/24/lumina-foundation-pushes-a-higher-ed-great-leap-forward/

If I want an over-educated plumber, I'll get my spanners out, let my jeans slip to beneath my arse crack, and do the job m'self, thank you very much - all the while paraphrasing Socrates, and deconstructing Hegel just for the Hell of it.

Have a great weekend, everyone.