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Like, you know, this is what the government of Greece says are the national qualifications. We don’t have that in the US in terms of like a federalgovernment entity saying here skills and competencies. The federalgovernment says, here’s what the skills and competencies are for these jobs.
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I think at the undergraduate level, the answer is definitely no,” he said. That’s because the amount that students can borrow from the federalgovernment is pretty limited, and the majority of students are already borrowing that maximum.”
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is to embarrass elite institutions by calling out a few examples that, while definitely do need to be addressed, dont always tell the full picture. is to embarrass elite institutions by calling out a few examples that, while definitely do need to be addressed, dont always tell the full picture.
Drumm McNaughton: Most definitely. Hopefully one thing that the schools can take away is reminding all students that delivery of federal grants and loans preceded the Department of Education, 1965 HEA, 1979 establishment of the Department of Education. The federalgovernment is not pulling Pell Grants away.
But within higher ed, there were several key amendments, what they call the Confucius Amendment, which going back to foreign influence, is the attempts to prevent, the federalgovernment and others from China and elsewhere from impacting influencing our college campuses here in the United States.
And, I think it’s definitely, an issue that’s going to continue, to take up a lot of mindshare through the spring semester, and, and I think we’ll have reverberations as we go through next academic year as well. [00:32:55] And it definitely started to diminish that presidential voice. 01:11:56] Thanks for listening.
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