Dr Alf’s Top Six Blogs – Last Seven Days

I thought that it might be interesting to share a list of my top six blogs in the last seven days. They are ranked by the number of hits, with most popular first:

  1. Dr Alf’s Two Cents – If we can now talk about spending on the elderly, George Osborne will have another reason to thank Ed Balls – Telegraph Blogs
  2. Dr Alf’s Two Cents: Hail the outbreak of honesty about Greece’s bailout – FT.com
  3. Dr Alf’s Two Cents: Even Labour has set its sights on pensioners | Ros Altmann | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
  4. A Hard Look at Childhood Obesity in the UK – John Gelmini
  5. Dr Alf’s Two Cents: It is time for Lord Ashcroft and the Tory party to part company – Peter Obone – Telegraph
  6. A Hard Look at Jeremy Heywood Cabinet Secretary Downing Street – John Gelmini
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Dr Alf’s Two Cents: Getting More Bang for the Buck in Higher Education – NYTimes.com

English: Laura Tyson

English: Laura Tyson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This an excellent and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED article by Laura D’Andrea Tyson, published in the Economix column of the NYT. Check it out!

via Dr Alf’s Two Cents: Getting More Bang for the Buck in Higher Education – NYTimes.com.

It was interesting to read that in austerity torn US, investment in college education was still very much in both the individual and the country’s best interests.

As I was reading the article, I was thinking about the generalization of the article’s conclusions to other countries, especially those savaged by excessive austerity, like Greece, Spain, Italy, the UK etc.

This led me to an interesting open question.

Should the troika of the EC, the IMF and the ECB combine to create new low cost finance for university education?

Any thoughts?

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