Last week, I was invited to attend a small discussion on the reform of
college education. The ambit of the discussion, thankfully, was not very
large.
Indeed, it could not have been narrower. It was confined entirely to
what the response of just one college ought to be to the market
requirements of the 21st century.
The college is worried. The courses it is offering are, with a few
exceptions, largely useless as they do not help students find jobs.
In consequence, the dropout rates have become high. Students leave in
droves to enrol in more useful, non-university, courses. The dropout
rate at the undergraduat
