With demand for higher education outstripping supply, they have little incentive to improve.
They talk of their desire to see better roads, schools where their daughters can get an education and a reliable supply of gas for cooking and heating.
First, the premium for skilled workers has been falling: a surge in secondary education has increased the supply of literate, reasonably well-schooled workers, and years of steady growth have raised relative demand for the less skilled in the formal workforce, whether as construction workers or cleaners.
The 1999 budget reduces social and environmental spending, including health, education, sanitation, water supply, land reform and welfare programmes.
Yet it would be a mistake to equate America's loss of its quasi-monopoly in the supply of higher education to foreigners with long-term decline.
Supply-side education reform, the strongest policy in the Tory manifesto, is to go ahead, with the desirable addition of the Lib Dem commitment to put quite a lot of extra money into teaching poor children.
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Reducing subsidies for graduate education will likely help realign the supply of graduate degree holders with realistic demand from employers.
In light of such structural changes on the demand-side of the market, the supply side, namely education, is also changing.
They work well, the Bank says, when the "supply of health and education services is extensive and of reasonable quality".
Pristina and Belgrade supply local healthcare and education in parallel, but on Strpce's municipal council, Serbs and Albanians find themselves working together on practical issues such as refuse collection and street lighting.
The region requires a great deal of education and enlightenment in the field of supply chain.
It said both should be placed in special measures - a status applied by Estyn when it considers that schools fail to supply an acceptable level of education and appear to lack the leadership capacity to improve.
It also said the council should be placed in special measures - a status applied by Estyn when it considers that schools fail to supply an acceptable level of education and appear to lack the leadership capacity to improve.
Economist Jesse Rothstein has a new paper where he constructs a model of teacher labor supply and how it interacts with education reform policies meant to affect teacher quality.
Poor education systems and rigid immigration rules hold back the supply of skilled labor.
Michael Gove, the education secretary, has rushed through two main sorts of supply-side reforms.
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Other supply-side reforms, for instance to education, will have little immediate impact.
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The same caveats apply to another of the supply-side constraints on Australia's economy: education.
The Flaschner Judicial Institute, which provides continuing education to state judges, would deal with the law firms that supply the interns.
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But a select few will see the writing on the wall and transform themselves from within, so they can stay relevant in a new world where education is a freely traded commodity subject to the same pricing, supply and demand constraints as every other commodity on planet earth.
Examples: China's exchange-rate policy (June 2005), education (March 2004), the nation's natural-gas supply (twice--in June 2003 and again the next month), the aging global population (also 2003), U.S. trade policy (April 2001) and commodity futures trading (June 2000).
With unemployment at nearly 10%, there is an ample supply of qualified and affordable American workers with a wide variety of education and job skills who can't get jobs.
"There is no question of Jarvis telling schools and head teachers how to do their job, but their role will be to supply a network of support to local authorities, " said an education department spokesperson.
Worse yet, Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce reports that the demand for college educated workers will outpace the supply in the U.S. by more than 300, 000 a year.
The Dakar Conference will just be another talking shop if governments are allowed to give lame excuses about shortcomings in girls education, run-down schools, inadequate teaching-learning aids, poor teacher supply, and funding.
And for years the slow pace of technological change meant that the supply of new journalists, provided through a broad journalism or general humanities education, would slot into the marketplace with little increase or decrease in overall income.
Doctors' salaries are so high not only because of supply and demand but also to offset the amounts they have to invest in education and in malpractice insurance.
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