Education Bubble

The recent reactions by students of arguably the nation’s most prominent university to a report about grade inflation read like they came from the pages of The Babylon Bee, a satirical website. That they came instead from the Harvard Crimson speaks to the crises plaguing higher education.

The gender gap in higher education has been widening for decades. Do universities need to do more to entice men back?

As classes begin for students at Canadian universities this month, one group will stand out for its relative underrepresentation: young men.

Even before enrolment data is available, it’s safe to predict that for every 100 Canadian students on campus this fall, nearly 60 will be women and only about 40 will be men.

This gender gap has existed for more than two decades, and universities are well aware of it – but they haven’t done much to address it. Discussion of the subject is not quite taboo, but it’s uncomfortable.

That’s likely because out in the working world, men are doing just fine. The data show that men still earn more than women. They also tend to hold more positions of power, including at universities.

Everything is great according to the Globe but stupid boys get paid more and still dominate STEM education and until STEM equals WOKE mean stupid boys must die or something.

The Globe may or may not have interviewed a white guy as a subject for this study which says more than they know.

Trustees with Toronto’s public school board have been given the do’s and the don’ts.

They can forward emails from constituents to the director of education and redirect calls to the board’s main line.

They cannot issue updates to their community; access administrative offices; use their board email account to communicate with constituents; or participate in any events as trustees, which includes engaging with school staff and parent councils.

That’s likely still too much for the racist commie groomers at the TDSB.

The death of the university, first announced many decades ago, has been a slow process. But its death throes quickened this year, as external threats met institutions bereft of purpose.

Perhaps most significantly, the financial crisis in England’s higher-education sector is coming to a head. This is due, in the main, to inflation, tax changes and frozen student fees. But warped spending priorities and bloated bureaucracies have also contributed to the problems facing almost three-quarters of England’s universities. Additionally, the decision 10 years ago to lift the cap on student recruitment has benefitted more esteemed and popular institutions, while leaving many others struggling to recruit fee-paying students. The facts are stark. Forty per cent of higher-education institutions apparently only have enough money to cover a few months’ costs.

The left’s “Long March Through the Institutions” began in the 1960s and has been wildly successful. Leftists took over the government bureaucracy, the establishment media, the entertainment industry, and above all, the educational system. A recent survey demonstrated one of the results of this.

A new report recently revealed that Yale University is apparently handing about grades in the A-range like they are candy. An estimated 78.97% of all the grades given to undergraduates at the prestigious university fell within the A-range.

The surprising development has left both students and faculty alarmed that high grades appear to have lost their value, according to the New York Times. Shelly Kagan, a philosophy professor, said: “When we act as though virtually everything that gets turned in is some kind of A — where A is supposedly meaning ‘excellent work’ — we are simply being dishonest to our students.”

h/t Mauser