How To Allocate Educational Resources

Soren Petersen, Huffington Post: Politics
Thu, 10/08/2015 - 10:03pm

Today's university students are faced with some of the toughest challenges in the history of humankind and yet, our current educational system may not be well positioned to adequately prepare them for meeting the challenges of this increasingly inter-connected world economy. Government sees the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) as key to our society's future success, however educators and academic institutions are now challenging this policy.

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