Episode #3: Cris Shore
Conversations in Anthropology
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The Audit Culture and Inequality
In the United Kingdom, which raised student fees, as you know, 300 percent. It went to a 3000 to 9000. The book by Andrew McGitigan shows actually that the net return to the nation, to the country now is less than the amount that there's been spent to enable students to borrow this debt. They're anticipating that either students will not be earning enough in their future careers or you can only pay it when you reach a threshold. And so the whole policy seems to have been an absolute disaster.
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