the desk, right, thank you. doris fisher's professor for tiny business and economics at university of worth worth. thank you for your insights. thank you. over to the world economic forum now in diverse, where for the past year, scientists have set up camp at the ski resort town to highlight the dangers of the climate crisis, or dw team caught up with some of them were fresh snow on the swiss arts. residents have been waiting weeks for the snow to fall, but don has started to gather dis month on to his of dallas. it's never taken this long for fresh snow to form here. tokens and these scientists are ready to explain the consequences or the con, the arctic base camp is a team of arctic experts and scientists. they are bringing the arctic to the world economic forum at dollars, including the risks that climate change poses. they have one goal to wander global . it's about what's coming and what's at stake for us, it's, you know, it's making sure that everybody understands that those are a problem and you can only ignore it for so long. and if you choose to ignore it, you decide you're on peril. the

worth it? the liberal arts or universities, the 4-year degree, 18 to 22? do we need to rethink that? >> great question. the experience of what people get from education on a college campus is worth it. for all the problems we have in higher education still have a great system of colleges and universities which is why people from all over the world, from china to india send their children to come year, we offer great education but that is not the problem. the problem is the cost and access, who gets an opportunity to get this education and to see exorbitant costs, because we have privatized higher education in america since the late 70s, 80s, put the burden so heavily on individuals and taken the responsibility away from society. those are the key issues. >> host: go back to privatization, what do you mean by that? >> after world war ii you had this amazing thing that happened, the g.i. bill which was the government decided to offer returning veterans from world war ii the amazing opportunity to go to college. free. stipends, books, everything. how many from the working class, the middle class or college material? it turned out demand was huge. huge demand for knowledge, educatio

it's been notified these universities are not being accused of assisting china , but accused of assisting china, but the links are worth speaking about. the links are worth talk about. here with me to talk about. here with me to talk about this is academic andrew tessman . andrew, good evening. tessman. andrew, good evening. how universities being overtaken the chinese . i think to a large the chinese. i think to a large extent they have and probably without knowing it , i think without knowing it, i think you're quite right to say they are not deliberately helping chinese to do all sorts unmentionable things . what's unmentionable things. what's happenedis unmentionable things. what's happened is that. well, to some extent the government's own on universities has come back to bite it because if you insist saying to universities we're not going to fund research and it's up to you to find else to fund it . and the nice man from the it. and the nice man from the china cultural bureau comes along , says, well, here's a cool along, says, well, here's a cool quarter million, you hardly blame them for taking it. but i think the other point , quite think the ot

it's been notified these universities are not being accused of assisting china , but accused of assisting china, but the links are worth speaking about. the links are worth talk about. here with me to talk about. here with me to talk about this is academic andrew tessman . andrew, good evening. tessman. andrew, good evening. how universities being overtaken the chinese . i think to a large the chinese. i think to a large extent they have and probably without knowing it , i think without knowing it, i think you're quite right to say they are not deliberately helping chinese to do all sorts unmentionable things . what's unmentionable things. what's happenedis unmentionable things. what's happened is that. well, to some extent the government's own on universities has come back to bite it because if you insist saying to universities we're not going to fund research and it's up to you to find else to fund it . and the nice man from the it. and the nice man from the china cultural bureau comes along , says, well, here's a cool along, says, well, here's a cool quarter million, you hardly blame them for taking it. but i think the other point , quite think the ot

amount of when we're seeing the amount of strikes we have, students strikes that we have, students need that is worth to need to know that it is worth to university you, you right. look, both of you, you very much could on with very much we could carry on with this a very long time. this for a very long time. i appreciate it. thank you so much. is, of course, much. that is, of course, remember now political remember him now is political and lecturer and national secretary of momentum. can i just as well, just on the just say as well, just on the look, you coming on. look, thank you for coming on. we not been if we have previously not been if people not super people have not been super supportive necessarily from groups such as momentum, etc. so it's to actually it's nice to actually have someone we have someone on so we can have a proper that we look at proper debate that we look at the right, your views on the right, okay so your views on university strikes off university strikes kicked off in the mark says 150 the inbox gb views mark says 150 unis the uk. what would be unis in the uk. what would be the i must say, mark, i do the move. i must sa