Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

American University of Beirut " Unlike old-fashioned missionaries toting textual material and a tradition of hermeneutics, AUB envisions a technocratic redemption.     It doesn’t value a life of ideas, but the drudgery of boldness, innovation, modernity, and other neoliberal buzzwords.     AUB is an offshore exemplar of U.S. capitalism." AUB Limited

England The main argument of those opposing the scrapping of tuition fees in England is where to find the money to fund free higher education. Looking at a list of European countries where there are no tuition fees or a little charge, one can see that these countries have gone bankrupt and their education system has collapsed because they provide "free" higher education. " Once you factor in the people who will not end up paying back their loans, in the long-term the policy is expected cost the government £8bn a year." (Source: the BBC Fact Check) That is less than a tenth of the billions lost beause of tax evasion. The real reason of keeping the tuition fees in England of £9,250+ is that consecutive goverments have adopted the most aggressive "neo-liberal" social-economic system in Europe, where the fundamentalist "free-market" ideology reigns supreme.  The structure of the socio-political system has made many oppose free education...