Nahas on the State of #Lebanon’s Political #Economy
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/23806
One result of the commodification of education, according to former Labor Minister Charbel Nahas, is seeing young people resort to private higher education, thinking that they are buying “a degree from the university” and they will surely succeed since they followed society’s prescribed path. After all, “without a degree, they cannot follow in their parents’ footsteps at work or migrate elsewhere.” Nahas pointed out that the decline in public education has been accompanied by an increase in the cost of education by 200 percent and an increase in the cost of living by 120 percent in just a decade and a (...)
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