Student Loan Program Pumps Legal Ed Bubble: For Now
The news from the legal world keeps getting worse. Recent financial data published by the University of California-Hastings, a San Francisco law school that is part of the UC system, and publicized by...
View ArticleDavid Schultz: The Corporate University Bubble Has Burst
Econintersect: David Schultz, an attorney and professor, has a strident indictment of the American University system. He says that the corporate model for university operation in vogue over the past...
View Article05/09/12: Tapioca pearls in bubble tea contain carcinogens: Study
German health authorities and researchers have come out swinging recently against the Taiwanese drink bubble tea, warning that the popular dessert beverage presents a choking hazard to children and may...
View ArticleAnalysis: Understanding the higher education bubble through Caddyshack
Statistics are boring, at least 85 percent of the time. Even the compelling ones tend to make your eyes glaze over. This little statistics-filled essay about the higher-education bubble aims to keep...
View ArticleReinflating the Law-School Bubble? – The Conversation – The Chronicle of...
One of the great mysteries of higher education is when, exactly, college prices will finally hit the Herbert Stein Unsustainable Trend Event Horizon. As a matter of simple logic, the price of higher...
View ArticleHigher Ed Bubble: Cutting the Fat from Law Schools
A word of advice for those toiling through law school: Skip the fancy electives. The Wall Street Journal reports that law schools are coming under increasing scrutiny for “quirky” elective courses like...
View ArticleStudent Loan Bubble Forces Yale, Penn To Sue Their Own Students
We have not been shy about exposing the massive (and unsustainable) bubble of credit being blown into the economy via Student Loans from the government. We have not been afraid to note the dramatic...
View ArticleThe Higher Education Bubble | higher education policy and development in asia
The most pressing concern for students today is to repay the education loans. But are they able to do so or are they a victim in the higher education bubble? This is an interesting question and it...
View ArticleJoseph Stiglitz is Still Soft on Higher Education | The Law School Tuition...
Yesterday, Stiglitz argued that student debt is connected to inequality, and it’s “intertwined” with lack of housing demand. He writes: It’s a vicious cycle: lack of demand for housing contributes to a...
View ArticleEDUCATION BUBBLE AND SCAM REPORT: Law School: Just not what It Used to Be
Everybody has a favorite lawyer joke. How about the one where the guy goes to law school and then finds out there are no jobs available? It is actually not that funny. Going to law school used to be...
View ArticleWonkblog Confused on Two-Year-Instruction Legal Education | The Law School...
In a confusing article titled, “Obama thinks law school should be two years. The British think it should be one.” The Washington Post‘s Wonkblog tries to weigh the merits and costs of reducing law...
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NYT Plays ‘Choose Your Own Higher Education Ideology’ | The Law School...
Due to your busy Saturday schedule, you only have time to read one of two opinion articles in The New York Times about education by two university professors. ****************************** Page 34...
View ArticleThe Business School Tuition Bubble – Michael Ryall – Harvard Business Review
Following the collapse of housing prices, a growing number of people have voiced concerns over a looming collapse of higher education tuition. Initial apprehensions were expressed at least as early as...
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Good News: Students Borrowing Less From Education Department | The Law School...
The bad news is that I just updated the LSTB’s student debt data page, but revising it again is my problem, not yours. For those in the know, the Department of Education (ED) tracks the amount of debt...
View ArticleOn Your Next Business Trip, Break Out of the Bubble – Scott Anthony – Harvard
We arrived at the woman’s home in the early afternoon. Getting to it involved walking down narrow alleys rich with the aroma of food being cooked on an open grill mixed with the stench of sewage and...
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The “higher education bubble” in the USA: could going to university become a...
Tertiary education is widely believed to be a very good private investment, even in countries like the USA, where the tuition fees are very high. However, some authors suggested that higher education...
View ArticleConfusing Cause and Effect for the Law School Bubble | The Volokh...
In the 1990s, the U.S. News law-school rankings began to gain in popularity and became a key element in the competition for new students. Meanwhile, as applications to first-year classes rose...
View ArticlePew Research Center Publishes Non-Sequitur to Send Everyone to College | The...
Readers will recall that the first time the LSTB crossed paths with a study by the Pew Research Center, it committed the mother of composition fallacies by applying findings for professional degrees to...
View ArticleHow a Louis Vuitton bag can explain the higher education bubble
f you happen to have $ 31,500 lying around, you could buy a . Or you could spend almost exactly the same sum to pay for one year’s worth of tuition (not including room and board) at an average American...
View ArticleThe Ongoing Inflation Of The Higher Education Bubble
Here, we see that there have been three major inflation phases for the cost of college: the first running from 1990 to 1994, the second from 2000 to 2003 and the third from 2007 through at least 2012...
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