HIGHER EDUCATION CHALLLENGES AT THE BASE

I would have called the scale I came up with:) the scale of priorities in Higher Education. Now: : If you think (Higher) Education is expensive, try ignorance" Derek Bok, and I agree. One should do whatever is in one's power to get an education, a good education, with a good recognition, and be worth it, by demonstrating it in one's endeavors and with one's productions. It starts from there, one has to want an education badly, and an education that is marketable. The government also has to want a citizenry that is very educated and competitive. In some countries, like France by example, Higher Education is literally free in general, but it is understood that not only France wants to be competitive but also that it is better to keep y0ung people in school for a longer time so they may be prepared well, because after all France is not geographically big, and is almost saturated with immigration, and opportunities are more scare than in the US. Here there are more opportunities to work for young people. Higher Education in the US is more less subsidized and this is a more capitalist society. A balance should be found, the middle class tax bracket should be taken into account and their expenses also, in order to provide help, because they have difficulties to, and they spend and help the economy grow. Merit should an important factor in deciding financial aid for everyone, taking into account needs also. In terms of access to great schools, needs should definitely be considered but merit should be the deciding factor. Students should be able to prove themselves, and that would be an incentive for less great schools to perform, or for students there to perfor, which would raise their school standing. The focus thouh should be on the capacity of whatever schools to help students do much better, even elite schools. States and Cities, with the help of Federal Government, should try their best to keep schools affordable, with both financial help to students and to schools. However competition should be kept alive, and schools should receive funding according to their performance, not through grades, but according to the marketability of their graduates, rated by the States, the Cities and Employers in general, through tests and performances on the job, and Graduate Schools (Admissions). Community Colleges should be abolished and be replaced by Colleges of Adulthood Preparation for Accesibility in the Business of Life through Education: CAPABLE which should be divided in three section: 1) Associate College of Technology: ACT, 2) Associate College of Humanities and Social Sciences Knowledge: AHSSK and the College of Remedial Humanities Education: COHRE. Everyone and Everything in their place for the relevant purpose. COHRE should be made free and accessible to everyone past 21. ACT and AHSSK would be offering Associate degrees.And Employers both public and private should be sponsoring both their actual and future employees to those schools through contracts negotiated with the school directly, and through Financial Aid directly to Students, with the help of Government Stipends :) :) :)