Further to our research on the end of the education bubble, we recommend this detailed interview with Professor Alison Wolf, author of Does Education Matter? Myths About Education and Economic Growth. She goes headlong against the orthodoxy of educational institutions, challenging the “great secular faith of our age” that increasing the number of people with educational credentials actually increases economic growth.
This line of inquiry flies in the face of every political speech of the last fifty years and rips to shreds many of the “knowledge worker/creative class” strategies of recent economic development ideas. This is an interesting polemic that accompanies the structural trend analysis that shows how much debt we are incurring to continue a broken system.
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