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Bad but stable equilibrium in graduate education
Andrew Norton on the inefficiency of PhDs: “To start with, it’s not clear that the PhD is fit for purpose. It can’t be a qualification for university teaching, since most PhD students are already...
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Spend status well
Related to: Choosing the best status games for society Reijo Laukkanen explains the remarkably successful Finnish education system: PUBLIC SCHOOL INSIGHTS: What do you think are some of the major...
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Why can’t I invest in poor children?
Nicholas Kristof reports on one of the reasons many poor people stay poor: It’s that if the poorest families spent as much money educating their children as they do on wine, cigarettes and prostitutes,...
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HECS a distraction from the real issues
I wrote this in April 2011 for the ANU student newspaper. Those without an interest in Australian education policy can safely ignore it. Opinions expressed are mine alone. Last week’s National Union of...
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Education is not a zero sum game
Recently the Australian Government produced a large report into its school funding arrangements. William Isdale over at Oxford’s Practical Ethics blog has examined the review and argued that it...
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Education is not a zero-sum game part 2
Here I will unpack another common offered but dubious part of William Isdale’s argument that permitting families to spend extra on their children’s education is inefficient and immoral. Isdale asks us...
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