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the french have other preoccupations besides rankings they need money more money france covered we envisioned land but the successive governments are founded on thinkable to sharply increase tuition fees it would be political suicide so hypocrisy rules paying programs gradually and in conspicuously being introduced in certain french university departments. at the forefront of the forthcoming marketisation prestigious institutions such as the oss pope paris or. have been authorized to introduce tuition fees these experiments are inconsequential for now but they are doubtingly aim to prepare for a change in the system one day or another. the global. only resit it but i've because of fog of the in wonder how bridge endeavor going.
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from says president i'm glad i'm of the motorist to the parts were to come for in this party and does the exam to horseshoe alicia belongs bisan so i'm going to shift to i'm big business in them bill don't survive of it or the man of the shaft the year them through. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education has been supplanted by the right to access education. higher education is becoming just another product. can be bought and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you're good you know models of. these souls the kind of fellow they couldn't. want is the place of students in this business model before college
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i was born now i'm running stream re more higher education the new global economic war. with old make us manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the roman clusters project themselves. with the famous merry go round of lives only the one percent of. the time to ignore middle of the room signals. billion real news in. the world. with the islamic state in its many confederates defeated or facing defeat in syria what is next for this war torn country what justification exists for the us to maintain military forces there does washington want syria partition itself and why
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. if a winner take all bets out it's a lottery mentality in america you know where are your dead and the pharmaceutical companies of course a lobbyist going to washington they juggle all the way possible to handle all costs in america and nobody cares because it ever learned a lot as a wal-mart or did they say let's do it again. over the past decade a great many european asian and african countries have introduced during crease tuition fees in their universities. in the name of excellence prices go up a little everywhere nothing seems to stop the process and yet among the four honest some questions arise and for good reason.
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parent the student student learn repayment that stands at around forty billion a minute. that's going to rise around two hundred billion pounds by the middle of this century. and the end of two thousand and thirteen one year into the one thousand pound yearly tuition fee upon an entry mission is called regarding the rising student debt. after several months of investigation in room fifteen of parliament the public accounts commission questions the public body in charge of student loan repayment. do you think it's realistic forty percent of the current money that goes up to students will never be collected at the moment that is at the top end of our estimates but it is not unrealistic ok so you don't quite know how you're going to fund it. well the longer term issue of lifting the cap the treasury announcement related in the first instance to potential sales from the
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future loan book the plan that. would be to sell transfers of the loads i met you sell a particular trunk of debt the terms of compound terms and conditions upon which it is sold are as it were set in standard crystalized and the buyer of that debt buys them on those terms and that's it they don't change can we just can we just be clear that the person buying the debt buys it on set terms and conditions that then cannot subsequently be changed by the new owner of the debt is that correct yes ok thank you. here in the u.k. the prospect of cutting the debt tranche is and selling it to private investors instantly brings to mind the disastrous mechanism of subprime loans that are shattered so many lives so many families two years ago thirty to forty percent of student loans remained on paper today it's reached forty five percent with close to the tipping
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point at forty seven percent of non collected debt the university system and its nine thousand pounds yearly tuition fee will cost more to the english state than it did at the time of the three thousand. england seems to be engaged in a dangerous game. in the us the bang university system became widespread nearly forty years ago. today the student debt has reached a catastrophic point. during
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the occupy wall street movement and one of the american citizens and research professors met with andrew ross professor at new york university the world's most expensive university. these activists goal was to fight the unbearable debt to weigh in on american citizens including the housing debt health debt and most importantly the student debt or with. the student debt problem and i stated about one point three trillion in total in there about forty million student debtors about eight million of those students are already in default meaning they're not paying out loans people can't imagine social goods or public goods in the united states it's unimaginable that you could have free education so there is
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a kind of normalizing of a of a i like to say kind of economic violence that people are used to and they just. expect that that's the way that is that's the way it always will be the right to education has been supplanted by the right to access education loans. they imposition of that has had the overall impact of stifling optional political imagination of students because they're so highly and and they have to think about their future in very particular ways that are tied to their financial position and their financial survival in the future. then movement tackles a huge market a for profit schools that have developed throughout the country in recent decades these schools do not target the elite of american students or the working classes
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force to work together again. amy and christine are two young women from the detroit area who grew up in working families and who can do. role in the country's high profile universities they still believed in the prospect of a better life like hundreds of other young americans they put decades in the hands of private for profit educational institutions the sector has grown by two hundred twenty five percent over the past ten years. and there should be ashamed to even say that their education system is this way when we were supposed to be the best country in the world has been the richest country in the world but now we are the richest country in the world for the rich but we're also the poorest country in the world for the poor in a way. before college now and i'm extremely bored there's a whole new category of people out there now. extremely born or rewarded.
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for it's almost the new rich. and sad. when i was what watching the television and seeing that they could make my life better if i went to their school. soon as he answered the phone with hi how are you this is my name's terry winters i'm you know i'll be the one to answer any questions you have but now. so he basically asked me if i would be interested in coming out of the school and looking at the campus and seeing what programs i had to offer said that he was a graduate there and that i should come check out the school when he walks through the school they have different things on the walls of. jobs i could qualify for with the degree but they're not actually telling you the full details of of
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everything and that they don't tell you that there's an arbitration clause that you can't sue the school whether individually we're through a class action suit don't really know. that you're getting into a predatory lending type of situation because they don't educate you to that they gloss over the financial it's very quick and you just initial and then you sign at the bottom and then it was oddly he just asked you know i have a couple graduates that would like to come in and speak with you and you have an issue talking to some recent graduates and in my mind i'm thinking that's kind of cool you know i can actually talk to some people it went to the school you know see what they say about the school so young female and young male came in and for all i know it could have been the recruiters working with this recruiter. he came and they both came in and said that you know they found a job before they ever graduated the school placed them and that they're doing really well and they're not struggling paying their student loan debt life is just
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so much better now they have so many opportunities they can jump job a job they want a lot of these student advisers at these schools used to use on students to get them into an education. and this in document from a for profit college if i can find that shows all the people that were. going after welfare moms with kids relocation recent high school graduates career change of grades goes college freshman dropout physically mentally abused pregnant ladies recent incarceration recent the forced drug ability military active every tired dennet no future low self esteem college credits two years low income jobs vocational rehabilitation living with multitude of families experienced a recent death living with parents experience recent birth of living with
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significant other and d.d.'s in durham hired by a recent marriage self-employed no benefits so they specifically targeted all these people for these type of loans that were subprime and very expensive for the education they received and that's just the the internet is filled with all kinds of stuff like this. my mom was extremely proud she'd like to brag to all of her friends like my daughter's a college and you know i never went and she's doing less great things for her life . after enrolling i called my mom and i told her i want to chop out and she did not understand why and i was like mom you understand a school is a scam and she said i don't understand how can a school be a scam. i have one hundred four thousand dollars in student loans as of september two
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thousand and thirteen and there are only growing by the day. i am or how long will it take before public european universities start charging twenty thirty or forty thousand dollars a year how long will it take for a new creative private educational system to skid out of control like it is today in the u.s. everywhere around the world students are mobilizing can anyone out there hear them can anyone understand them they question our society our political choices what kind of world we want to live in a world where the economy is at the service of man. or a world in which man is at the service of the economy i am.
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young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million a doing so today. this culture led to the development of bolivia's new liberal and highly controversial children's code in two thousand and fourteen which gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances what is and isn't as. is all news. eat but with that you have in the end all. the things years. but there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operating
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heard that. the u.s. defense secretary outlines a new strategy where countering russia and china takes priority over the fight against terrorism. a scandal worse the watergate so claim republican lawmakers about a top secret memo allegedly exposing senior level lorin force means political bias against donald trump. friendship police fire tear gas at striking prison guards at europe's largest jail as a protest against severe working conditions. and a teenager in just six people including a teacher in an axe attack on a school in eastern siberia the third such incident in russia in less than a week. my colleague a will be with you next hour with an in-depth look at
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today's events meanwhile coming up peter lavelle's cross talking about the fate of syria and the continued u.s. presence in the region. hello and welcome across. were all things considered i'm peter lavelle with the islamic state in its many confederates defeated or facing defeat in syria what is next for this war torn country what justification exists for the us to maintain military forces there does washington want syria partition if so and why.
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cross talking syria i'm joined by my guest jonathan steele in london he's an international affairs commentator in leeds we have here he is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford and in doha we cross the mohammed should we he is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university and author of what is unlike continuity or rupture in the wake of the arab uprisings all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate if i can go to you first in leads here let me read some of the headlines here tillerson touts indefinite u.s. presence in syria and assad must go in new plan also tillerson u.s. military presence in syria open ended will ensure regime change i thought we got way way past that with the collapse of the islamic state with talks in afghanistan i'm sorry in kazakhstan with the russians in the iranians and the turks i thought you know to look this is a blast from the past where is this coming from go ahead. i think
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what we see at the moment he's effectively. effectively what we are seeing at the moment is. the post-war german situation when the country became divided between two different spheres of influence and that. division. when they change the security and political landscape of the world at least for about forty years of course we have to bear this in mind that at the moment over the last two of thirteen months what we have seen in the american political establishment is confusion so i really don't want to jump to a conclusion but if mr tillotson is absolutely committed to his words and they are going to keep their forces in syria to prevent further
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empowerment of bashar assad effectively is what i mentioned is going to be kind of germany fixation of syrian conflict which will have serious implications not only for syria but for the right the region of course they keep telling us that you know they are not interested in partition and disintegration of syria what if it moves like a doc if you like a dog then probably it's a dog you know jonathan weigh in on that because i am really quite mystified by all that's what is the national security interest of the united states to maintain military forces illegally under international law in syria what is the game plan it seems to me it's a lot of spite they don't like the fact that the russians the iranians and assad won that it's back down on the ground they want to accept it go ahead jonathan well i think they've made it clear that to do it against iran initially it was against
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iris but it was against a. very serious quite clearly bill to run up into a burglar i'm going to listen was talking about this northern arch some kind of arch invisible to anybody except to listen in the american administration to the. mediterranean coast and it's nonsense i mean for years syria is a completely calm country. and had no minimal influence there have no troops no toll it's only because of the collapse of the authority and. of commune and if authority is restored in damascus and assad can exert control as he's hoping to do throughout the country then the need for the ukrainian presence and i'm quite confident that it would be dramatically reduced it's a bogeyman in the eyes of the americans it's nonsense yeah ok go to mohammed in doha me i agree with you it's really. a farce here that the us is created in pursuing it but it has real life implications on the ground here i mean the
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interesting thing is that the syrians proxy civil war never gets simpler we have the whole situation ok granted it's an illusion but turkey is not and this is we have this collision that's going on between to me and nato countries the united states and turkey having a collision over the kurds here and i don't see any real easy way out except for maybe a deterioration of nato relations within the alliance i mean that certainly can't be what the americans want is it go ahead moment. while so for we have seen one year off from prism in the us foreign policy and so far what we are witnessing is basically politics with no specific strategic objectives so far by the ministration has not has not the result of the isis problem for sure at the same time the syrian conflict now is
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a limbo and instead of the scale eighteen this particular conflict in the middle east what he has tricked another conflict with tookie so far now we're faced by with one open ended conflict that is going to be between the united states and then go into that i mean if you're in iran and beyond so far in terms of conflict this is i don't see a particular strategic. way out of this mess unfortunately we had a lot of it coming from the white house but we don't have any effective strategic decisions try into the is committed to situation or cleanest help with the syrians outcome that would be favorable to all. this because the whole journey of a process in the house has been big history yes and i've seen i mean that i'm so i don't want to sound naive here but there is
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a way out here it's called sitting down at the table and negotiate an end of this have internationally observed elections i have nothing against that. make sure all these foreign proxies leave you make sure the gulf countries stop sending arms and money to these various groups i mean there is a way out it's not that hard there's no political will particularly on the side of the united states that has no geopolitical winces whatsoever to be in that country go ahead. there is no easy way out because there are too many con of foreign interests involved in this conflict and in my opinion we are only beginning to end to the second phase of this bloody and multi-faceted and multi-dimensional conflict in the first phase is that kind of long is allies like old russia iran and hezbollah have been the main
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conduit for winners but now we are entering the second phase in this phase maybe we're going to have an active involvement of other regional players important regional players who did not play a leading role and here i'm talking about is the reason that the united states is going to keep kind of at least two thousand soldiers in syria and at the same time training another thirty thousand kind of soldiers within the framework of s.t.a. forces is because of the fact that they want to maintain a military balance in the second phase because it seems that they are extremely concerned about permanent military bases by countries like russia and the islamic republic of iran so in my opinion basically fighting against or basically
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taking measures to prevent further empowerment of bashar assad is nothing but a pretext against against what's happening at the moment so they want to just create a balance of power. and that can create and all conflict for a very very long time that's a very interesting way of looking at go to jonathan i mean but you know what i guess you know these other outside forces forget that syria is of sovereign country it can invite other countries in to set up a military base i mean the united states that they don't. all over the world ok and the syrians want to have the russians there have the ratings there where they were not there before i mean that the rank hypocrisy of all of this you know why should these foreign powers at his side who can have a military base in syria when they have no right to do so under international law go ahead jonathan. well i mean i agree with you on that i mean in new york the americans were in.
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