Salient to Investors: The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission found: The UK is deeply elitist and small elites, educated at independent schools and Oxford/Cambridge still dominate top roles 71% of senior judges, 62% of senior armed forces officers, 55% of top civil servants, 50% of the House of Lords,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Elizabeth Green at Chalkbeat writes: Americans have come up with better ways to teach math but have failed to implement them: from the 1800s to the failures in the 1960s and 1980s through to today. The reason is the absence of a good system for helping teachers
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Economist Thomas Piketty excludes human capital – an individual’s labor power, skills, training and abilities – from his analysis of wealth inequality because it cannot be owned or traded on a market, but recognizes it is key to understanding inequality. Sean Reardon at Stanford said low-income kids
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: Business school is a waster of time and money. By doing your own work and teaching yourself, you will come out way ahead of going to business school. Read the full article at http://jimrogersonthemarkets.blogspot.com/2014/06/going-to-business-school-is-waste-of.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Richard Lyons at Berkeley said: Half of US business schools could be out of business in 5 to 10 years because more top MBA programs will start to offer degrees online. Lower-ranked business schools are the most vulnerable. Education technology has the potential to make the proximity
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Google’s Eric Schmidt and Anne-Marie Slaughter at the New America Foundation said colleges and universities are indecisive, slow-moving, and vulnerable to losing their best teachers to the Internet. Schmidt said colleges have the luxury of thorough, democratic deliberation of issues because they never actually do anything, in
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said: Agriculture will enjoy an extended boom,Very bullish about farmland and other agricultural products. Bearish on Wall Street brokers and Ivy League professors. The central corridor from north Texas up to the Dakotas has the highest growth rates in employment, income growth and savings in
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: A. Gary Shilling at A. Gary Shilling & Co writes: The total labor-force participation rates tend was 63.5 percent in June 2013 versus 67.4 percent in early 2000. The participation rates of 16-to 24-year-olds has declined sharply since 2000 as slow economic growth, limited jobs and rising unemployment rates have encouraged
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Lawrence Bowdish at American Military University says 66 percent of students borrow to attend college, and 31 percent of Americans age 25 or older hold bachelor’s degrees versus 5 percent in 1950. Bowdish said the supply of university slots has increased, but not enough to meet demand. Read the full
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The Italian higher-education system lets undergraduates linger on campus for years and retake final exams 6 times, and schools are disconnected from the economy and only recently opened campus career offices. No Italian schools, public or private, are in the top 200 in the Times Higher Education’s
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