Re: New at Cato Unbound: Charles Murray vs. the B.A.

Cool Cal — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:59:03 -0000

Here is an article on a phenomenon you may be interested in, Will. It talks about the UK's new policy of allowing McDonalds and other businesses to award diplomas replete with marketing and finance courses to their service employees as a sort of enhanced trainee program. Naturally, many liberal reformers are infuriated by this (It's a private business institution letting low-income workers make large hurdles in valuable real world education, instead of the state patronizing soul-enriching, but functionally useless liberal arts institutions for the poor - an outrage).

Here be the link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/72...

Re: New at Cato Unbound: Charles Murray vs. the B.A.

Christopher M — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:32:28 -0000

Those interested should also take a look at Jason Malloy's analysis here.

Malloy's argument, from the data, is that "People with average and below average IQs are getting just as much of a financial return out of their 4-year degree as those above the 85th percentile." This leaves open, of course, the question whether there might be alternatives to college that could do equally well for people.

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