In general, all of the liberal arts colleges have done exactly what was expected to happen when the federal government intervenes and interferes with the free market (in this case the market of higher level education).
The idea of a consumer market in higher education is also undermined by the evidence that almost 45% of university applicants apply only to universities within 25 miles of their home.
How can a party that wants to curb the state and encourage personal responsibility object to university tuition fees and the stimulation of a competitive market in higher education?
The general secretary of the University and College Union, Sally Hunt, said the introduction of a higher education market was "a recipe for disaster".
The for-profit sector recognized that an entire segment of the higher education market was largely untapped, and it stepped up to the plate to meet that demand.
Mr Jones said the UK attracted 13 per cent of the international higher education student market, second only to the USA, and joining the association should help strengthen that position.
Government grants, subsidized loans, and tax breaks would unleash market forces and use them to tackle the problems of higher education.
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First, there are informational asymmetries in the higher education market which violate the assumption of full information that economists make when discussing perfect competition.
In the global higher-education market, for example, Estonia boasts dozens of institutions (admittedly, of varying quality) offering competitively priced, multilingual courses.
If we abolish tenure, the new market equilibrium would result in higher average salaries, thus further increasing the cost of education.
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Once massive layoffs started to make daily news headlines back in 2008, observers of the labor market quickly turned their attention to the disparity between job seekers with higher education and those without.
Products, higher education products, are sold on the market, there is a kind of marketisation that has set in and you see it increasingly over the last 10 or 15 years.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Higher education 'market' warning
Understand that with regard to higher education there is a fundamental public purpose to be served and even though the market may be an extraordinary device for sorting, for pricing, for determining who gets what, ultimately the market in the service of the public good is the most powerful potential device we have for ensuring that higher education serves public purposes.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Higher education 'market' warning
Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal, was one of the first to use the word "bubble" to describe the current higher-education market.
Over the past several decades, hordes of for-profit institutions have sprung up to capture the excess demand for higher education in the market, making some insiders very wealthy in the process.
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