From the Beeb:
The government target of getting 50% of people under 30 into higher education should be scrapped, the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) has said. What do you think?
The AGR also wants a phased increase in student top-up fees by 2020, with safeguards for disadvantaged families. AGR’s chief executive Carl Gilleard said the proposals [...]

John Derbyshire at the Corner:
In my own days as a math undergraduate (old British system: no nonsense about majors and minors, we just did math) it was a running joke that when invited to the room of a female Humanities student, we’d browse her textbooks while she was making coffee; but when they came to [...]

It isn’t right to hate people for what they write, but I come mighty close with some people. One thing that drives me into a cold fury is the demand that private education be banned. Some people argue, in all sincerity, that the nurturing and natural instinct of parents to spend money on educating their [...]

Men married to smart women live longer
Swedish scientists have discovered that long life and good health have nothing to do with a man’s education and everything to do with his wife’s.
So I guess I should stop trying to get a PhD and try to marry one instead.

This is why the Democrat Party in the US is in a hurry to enact transformative legislation:

National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted August 5-8, 2009
By Rasmussen Reports
I’m going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which political party you trust more to handle that issue. [...]

Canada has only 33 sperm donors!
Communist levels of public spending in the UK (good table for comparing regions).
Opportunity to sign petition against totalitarian government efforts to ensure your kids are properly indoctrinated provide edukayshun 4 orl.
Speech code of the month at FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) is from Northern Illinois University where they [...]

Today at the BBC I find out about another outrageous higher education policy initiative.
Campaigners have welcomed an idea to give poorer students a two grade “head start” to help them get places at the leading universities.
We’re not exactly told in the article where the idea is coming from but only that Peter Mandelson is considering [...]

Via commenter Andrew K on Longrider’s blog I find out about this guy. Step forwards Paul Chatterton – a man doing publicly funded leftist activism masquerading as research.
His projects (funded by British taxpayers money) include Autonomous Geographies:
“Autonomous Geographies was a two year action research project . . . . . funded by the Economic [...]

Over at the ASI they ask “why are we ruled by the ignorant?” in response to Harridan Harperson’s claim that more women in banks would have less to risk taking the good folks at the ASI have unearthed research which suggests a mixed sex workplace may in fact increase risk taking.
These decision makers such as [...]

Reason TV smashes Barack Obama over his disgusting hypocrisy in seeking to destroy the Washington DC voucher programme.

Of course this is no surprise to anyone who recognises Obama as a less talented version of Tony Blair. It mirrors almost perfectly Blair’s abolition of the Assisted Places Scheme upon his ascension to power. The [...]