Higher Education – A public Good or a Commercialised Affair

Higher Education

CBI higher education and skills group report – Stronger Together

The CBI’s higher education and skills group senior policy adviser Lizzi Holman and head of group Richard Wainer talk about the launch of Stronger Together. September 2009.

Higher Education – A public Good or a Commercialised Affair
Higher Education

Higher education is rising as a good component in the global business Marketplace as more and more students Heading to abroad for searching and pursuing specialized courses in their field of interest

There is a rising and complicated debate that is about classifying the education as a Commercial affair or a public good that is a fundamental right to everyone. The evidences about Education (Especially Higher education) being a public affair and also a commercial affair are equal in numbers and also in impact.

In general, the universities and the academic communities would like to see higher education being viewed as a public good (like the traditional view of education as a fundamental right to every person).

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Still, the prevailing argument in the World Trade Organization Secretariat is that higher education is now more as a ‘private consumption’ that directly benefits the consumer by ways of generating higher and sustainable income.

Universities from Latin American countries In April 2002, Portugal and Spain adopted a Declaration at the 3rd Summit of Iberian and Latin American Universities in Porto Alegre, Brazil according to which they declared education to be a ‘public good’ and they requested their governments to not to make any commitment on this  issue within the framework of WTO.

However, the perception of higher education being more as a commercial service than a public good is gaining more acceptance overtime.  The WTO Secretariat in September 1998 has mentioned that abiding the rapid changes in the framework and operations of higher education ‘education now exists also as a private consumption item that has a price determined freely by the institutions that provide it to the Desiring students’. They have stated As a result, that more and more paying students are attracted to these institutions including foreign students.

Thus, education is a public good or a commercialized affair is still  debate without any determines and satisfying conclusion.

Academic freedom essential here, and everywhere else
Higher Education
What concerns Huckaby, judging from his comments in a Friday newspaper interview, is that some lawmakers are trying to get more direct control over higher education. “There is a perception in the Capitol — and this surprised me — that the university …

Higher Education question by jdamn13: How old are students when they enter and finish higher education in Egypt?
In America, students start at 18 and finish at 22 typically, but I heard that Egyptian students (like Zarqawi) can be in med school at 17, which would mean that higher education in Egypt is like secondary education in the free world. Is this true?
In America, students start college (higher education) at 18 and finish at 22 typically, but I heard that Egyptian students (like Zarqawi) can be in medical school, or other graduate studies at 17, which would mean that higher education in Egypt is more like secondary education in the free world than higher education, since high school (secondary education) ends at 18 in the US.

This website: http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/org/IntHigherEdFinance/Egypt.pdf
says that college in Egypt lasts from age 14 to 17. Is that true, or does it work differently? I also read that in Egypt they devote much of their education to Koranic studies but they don’t study science, history, government, or psychology, since the truth in these areas of study largely conflict with what the Koran says. I know they study math and language because the Egyptian grad students I know speak fairly well and must have performed adequately on their GREs, but they have obviously never studied history, science, or psych.

Higher Education best answer:

Answer by ♘EgYpTiAn♘ ☢GuY☢ ☠☠☠☠☠
First of all I feel sorry for all Americans who are thinking the same way as yours ……. If you don’t know about EGYPT then I think it’s your own problem, not the Egyptians,

Second, Zarqawi is not EGYPTIAN, he is from Jordan then he lived in Iraq and died there, I’m sure now that you do know Iraq, also I’m sure that U don’t know Jordan !!!!!!!!

Third, For education in Egypt, it’s level is much higher than U think, for the age students finish high school is typically (17), and they finish college typically at (21), I’ve Just finished finished my first year exams in Engineering and my 18th birthday is next week, I’ m wondering now if Egypt is the most developed country since the students in Egypt finish high school at (17), and in America they finish at (18) !!!!!!!!!!!!??, I didn’t see your site & I won’t.

Third, haven’t you heard about Egyptian history, how wouldn’t we study history if we have the greatest history in the world I think Americans are indeed of studying history, Also how would I be an engineer without physics, mechanic and other sciences. I’ll tell you something, there is an Egyptian who won a noble prize in 1998 in CHEMISTRY for his great achievements in the field of chemistry, He is the main founder of Femtochemistry.

When I read your question I laughed like a drain for the first glance, then I felt sorry for U and for all americans thinking the same way , how could you say that we don’t study policy, I’m asking now have U !!!?, Now I realized how a man like Bush became the president of America, and how have he cheated all Americans in Iraq’s war, that’s because you know nothing about Egypt OR arabs OR Koran OR islam, this is all PROPAGANDA.

Koran has absolutely no contraction with studying any sort of science, contrary to your thoughts, it calls for studying all sciences, and from the religious point of view in Islam it is forbidden for any one to give all his study & life in studying koran and religious matters, but calls for studying all sciences…. We study the same subjects you have studied in your high school besides the principles of our religion as one subject whose mark isn’t taken in the GPA but is just for our knowledge.

Last thing I want to ask U

WHAT DO YOU THIMK OF EGYPTIANS RIGHT NOW ??!!

& I hope U ain’t angry