Lenders may be starting to have trouble because the student loan debt bubble is indeed popping.

Several recent, disparate stories from the world of education have a common thread: One student is expelled and arrested, facing felony charges, for accidentally starting an explosion. A science buff, she had mixed toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil in a small container, a common method of producing a minor explosion. In what should be [...]

Recently, we covered the problems of sunset careers and of PhDs who are readily exploited because their career prospects are poor. But the problem is broader than that: More than two-fifths of graduates over the last two years are underemployed, according to a recent Accenture survey. And, no surprise, part-time work is booming. Don’t trust [...]

According to an entrepreneurial ideas site, Springwise, Kidum 700 (a cram school for students seeking admission to higher-tier Israeli universities) uses an application form in QR code that can only be filled in by students who can answer skill-testing questions: According to Yehoshua\TBWA, around 90 percent of the students present at the fair tried their [...]

Not if the only thing you need more of in life is letters after your name instead of in the middle. It would be easier and cheaper to just add letters yourself. Seriously: In 2010, Britain’s The Economist, in its usual elegant, no-byline style, described PhD serfs. Which is interesting because, in the Western world, [...]

Will your career still be there when you are thirty-five? These days, that’s a good question to ask, and some people are trying to provide answers. New York mayor Bloomberg thinks that maybe you should become a plumber. Both Bloomberg (yes, the soda censor and pop cop) and the people who are angry about what [...]

Okay, so if you wash up at the university, never mind, the world always needs more fry cooks, right? Don’t be too sure. Strange as it might seem, the fast food industry may be struggling despite persistent unemployment figures (which we would expect to make fast food more attractive). Also, some trendy niche food markets [...]

… is not, in my view, what you might expect. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)’s Greg Lukianoff  (author of Unlearning Liberty) details the case of a Mormon student at Florida Atlantic University who was suspended for complaining about being asked  to stomp on a piece of paper with Jesus’s name on it. He [...]

Yes, it is true, the thing is helplessly large, with eyes as big as dinner plates. It lives in the depths of the ocean, so it usually only washes up as fragments. (We can estimate the approximate size of the animal via the sizes of the fragments.) Recently, there has been some more light shed [...]

Hardly an exhaustive list. We can’t keep up with all the grievance groups on the five to thirty minute wait time line, complaining about how you offend them. Instead, here, we’ve been spending a fair bit of time on Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s Greg Lukianoff’s recent book, Unlearning Liberty. It is welcome that Ed [...]