Students as consumers: the commercialisation of higher education in the United States of America
Howard Gardner perceives the university as a cross-eyed beast, which has one eye focused on financial issues and the other on the expectations of the students.
In 1972 the Journal of Higher Education published an article in which the author wrote: “It doesn’t matter what it’s called, who’s doing it or where in the institution – [...]
Polish joke
In recent days Poland set an infamous record in alienating a new American administration.
Until now, right–wing Polish MP from Law and Justice party (PiS), Artur Gorski with his exotic political views was relatively harmless. “I always considered him as an harmless monarchist”, described him Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski. Unfortunately since Gorski decided to discredit [...]
The global financial crisis – III: What remedy?
The dog’s breakfast of an Obama stimulus package will cause another Great Inflation to follow the Big Recession, says Deepak Lal
There seems to be no end to the US financial crisis. Its deflationary effects are now spreading to the global real economy. With the new US administration’s ratcheting up the invective on Chinese currency manipulation’ [...]
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