According to the Global Education Digest, a report published last year by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 69 out of 100 adults of college age are enrolled in higher-education programs in Europe and North America.

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As markets and regulators begin to digest the massive failure of MF Global, many have come out to call for stricter enforcement of the Volcker Rule, which aims to separate proprietary trading from commercial banking in order to minimize systemic risk.

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Even more important, in my opinion, than the list of cases in the Digest is the 30-page analysis of recent cases and global enforcement trends that precedes the hundreds of pages of case descriptions.

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The Digest also highlights some potentially good news, namely that the global repetition rate has fallen by 7% between 2000 and 2010 even though there were more children in primary school, with enrolment rates rising by 6% during the same period.

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