-- universities in the country. we have this year long moment in 2015 and 2016 where students were uprising saying, what was happening for them -- their experiences were not what they expected as a diverse student body. they were frustrated by a lack of diversity. they are right, to some degree, a number of nonwhite phd have flatlined. and african-american phd's have flatlined. a very small percentage. that means the number of nonwhite professors that can be higher -- hired is a small percentage. they are concerned that, as a diverse student body, they are not being educated by diverse faculty that can help them understand the diverse world they are part of. the other thing i think they are concerned about is, it is not just nonwhite faculty members, it is all faculty members who have to figure out how do we best educate the students for the world that we live in, and for the world they will step into as adults? i think there is some frustration there. some frustration with old legacy. probably the most public thing

university. mr. george: and the final panel for the day addresses issues having to do with liberal arts education and the search for truth. we have a very distinguished group of panelists to address the question. i want to begin, though, with a bit of personal testimony of my wn and really an expression of gratitude. e will be discussing pathologies, undeniable pathologies that exist in american higher education these days. ompromising of -- compromising of academic education. the lack of viewpoint diversity. the phenomenon of trying to win debates by labeling other people haters. t -- bigots or those pathologies are undeniable. they exist. they are very widespread. many people in the academy across the political spectrum not only recognize them but recognize that they present an urgent problem and truly a stanford ovost of university recently in a public letter called that threat the threat from within the you university -- within the university. saying no threat to higher education come interes

abdul wali khan university university is one of the newest with the student population over 12,000. away from mashal khan's village. the campus has been closed since his murder. that is the department ofjournalism where he used to study and over there is the hostile that he lived in. and it is where he died. mashal stood out here for his intelligence and his liberal views. he had plenty of close friends. that is mashal? that is mashal and this is me. abdullah will also be accused of blasphemy and for him, and other journalism student. we were just gossiping. what was your first impression of him? he is a kind of genius guide. it was it about him that made you think that? his thoughts. the way he spoke in the class and he used to read karl marx, he was a big fan of karl marx. mashal would debate with more conservative students. he described himself as a muslim but also a liberal. over time, himself as a muslim but also a liberal. overtime, debate turned himself as a muslim but also a liberal. over time, debate turned to threats. he used to discuss with religious fanatics, india neith

program at arizona state university. i think those are important within the university. i will give it over to the panelists to see if they have reflections on what may be done outside the university, what kind of disruptive work can be done. clarify, i wasn't questiong -- i met the in the form of inventing a new kind of institution. i was not suggesting it be instead of. institutions of higher learning representing liberal education. agree. one thing that i hope supporters of higher education, including financial supporters of higher education, one thing i hope they it isake to heart is important not to write off the universities. when you see the kinds of things that happened at a berkeley, were other places that spoken of, people can become disgusted and give up on the project. while i am all for think tanks, we cannot give up on our students. our students are in the university and what supporters of american higher education need to do is to support initiatives that will live up to the highest ideals of liberal learning in the universities, time at the same supportin

we're in the universe, we are part of the universe, and the universe is in us. and that is one of the most profound revelations of modern astrophysics that there ever is. of science. of science. and i'd like to... if you put together all the revelations of science, that we are biologically connected not only to each other but to all the life forms on the earth, that our molecules are the same molecules that we find in other plants, that this connectivity transforms, i think... i'd like to believe will transform how you view yourself. are you above and apart from everything, or are you a part of everything? because if you think you're above and apart from it, then what's to prevent you from just taking out the forests, and dominating all the creatures of the planet? >> hinojosa: and a lot of people do that, don't they? >> they do that because their ego sits high. but when you study the universe, the ego needs to take a different place. >> hinojosa: there's something else that happens, though. >> because we're not as... we're never as big as we ever thought we wer

the university has now reopened.y its new reputation. the reopening of the university was a chance to meet and finally talk to the university administration. isn't it a failure of the university that its students held, or some of its students, held such extreme views that they thought it was acceptable to lynch and kill someone? it is a failure of the university but it is a failure of the pakistani education system. it is a failure of the pakistani social and political system and pakistani society as a whole. wajahat‘s father lives in the shadow of the jail that now houses his son. he is worried about the future of his son and of the country. now we are becoming atheist, the people are free to make people atheist and what does that make pakistan? do you think atheism is spreading in pakistan? i think it is because people like you and the media who are giving more and more attention to such atheistic views, of course it will grab the whole country in the very near future. because nobody will be safe. they will not be

is of loyola university, maryland. studded with leon when she was in graduate school at the university of chicago, was the co-author of the 2011 book that amy organized and amy and leon and diane co-authored. what's it was probably we hail" and it is accompanied by i excellent website that recommend for any american holiday or just for understanding america in general. wonderful readings and it is wonderful to look at. after diana, we will hear from jim caesar. but certainly -- well yes, a student of leon -- not a direct student of leon but leon. and influenced by jim caesar, gary byrd professor of politics university of virginia, distinguished in enough american politics and the american regime and then go mclean, the history -- bill mclean, the history professor and a chair at the university of oklahoma. a distinguished, sounding chair. and bill mclean obviously has written great books on american history and society in american modern history. at theed looking introduction, think both diana and jim spent a year her

which is love of the university -- universal principle of justice, all men are created equal. openca would therefore be to admitting citizenship. any kind of person without guard to previous ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, and the like. nationalism by contrast, limits membership in a country to something like originally belonging to a group and these and only these are allowed to be citizens. this is said to be bad. of course, this is true american places, america and places like france are openly to all. other places like japan are not. you have to be japanese to be japanese. pretty much in fact. but the idea of good and bad attached to this difference is strange. i would say that there are different nationalisms and nationalism has had many instances of xenophobia true. but nationalism was also the source of democracy, opposition to communism. who can forget lithuania or polish nationalism part of resistance to supposedly open or purpose driven soviet union. for america, our open principles to all as citizens by no means meant historically that citizenship cannot or

. ♪ >> from queens college, city university of new york. >> university of virginia. >> university ofexas at austin. >> guatemala. >> unc charlotte. >> vanderbilt university. >> university of queensland, brisbane, australia. >> university of maryland. >> are you republican? >> no. >> are you democrats? no. john: what are you? [shouting] [applause] >> and now, john stossel. [applause] john: i'm in washington, d.c. this is the place that could use a lesson in liberty. we'll try to give them one because, i'm surrounded by students here, more than a thousand of them who traveled to join a conference called, students for liberty. because here in washington life is dominated by democrats, who want to take away our economic liberty, republicans who often want to take away our pennal liberty. there are a couple exceptions to that. one is congressman justin amash from mesh ban. [cheers and applause] -- michigan. he is unusual because he has an economics degree. he worries a lot about america's coming bankruptcy. we are probably going bankrupt. how many of you students think, when you're my age

you continue to save precious lives at georgetown university hospital. you never know who will be affected and knock on your door. most importantly, continue living your lives and fulfilling your dreams. i would like to say hi to my daughter. [applause] you, jessica. jessica.nk you, it was a beautiful reflection, and for the vision and determination that you have brought to helping all of us better know your family and the person whom it whose name now marks this building, isaac hawkins. today, in gathering to dedicate two buildings in the heart of our campus for isaac hawkins and anne marie becraft, we honor to individuals. their lives, their stories, their families. we recall the injustices they faced in our role in them and we bear witness to a history that have forgotten. we do this in the context of the university community, a place animated by a shared commitment to push against and push through blocks to understanding, blocks to knowing, blocks to freedom, blocks to human flourishing. we have a responsibility in the pursuit of inquiry and the form

or going to university this year, reconsider yourfall university experience and that means to look toing your degree, volunteering, working, doing an internship, doing a year in industry, to make sure that makes you a lot more employable when it comes to graduation. thank you very much for your time this afternoon. victims of harassment and stalking in england and wales are being left at risk because of failings, according to a report. both the inspectorate of constabulary and the crown prosecution service inspectorate found that crimes weren‘t being recorded, investigations were poorly recorded and legal protection was not offered to another victim. an attack by a stalker that could have been prevented. helen pearson suffered neck and face wounds when her neighbourjoseph lewis stabbed her with a pair of scissors. it was the culmination of a five—year stalking campaign that involved vandalism and graffiti. helen made 125 reports to devon and cornwall police about her stalker‘s escalating violence, but she wasn‘t taken seriously and the force has now apologised. we would report this to

those who don't go to university, we need is to offer them afar university, we need is to offer themng apprenticeships, on—the—job training and opportunities for those who don't does university. there needs to bea don't does university. there needs to be a new deal but it can't be on the basis of existing tuition fees, which are already my thousand to £50. how do you see tuition fees changing in terms of the level they are set at? given all these pressures that we have been talking about top i think there's a good chance tuition fees will be abolished out right. the system has become is a controversial and difficult to sustain, with very high levels of debt and write—offs and huge political controversy, but i'm not sure they will survive. i think there is a very good chance they will go entirely because the controversy is so great. as nobody will believe, if they go back down to three to £4000, that they will stay there. there will be huge suspicion that this willjust be a staging post to them going up again. particularly if we have crises like this one with university pensions. if t

house they could give universal principles have to be? guess how thick do the universe of us. to be --how thick to the universal principles have to be? to have a society where there can be patriotism and people can be committed to the same universal ideals that makes patriotism really possible? >> i think and will make that the last question and let everybody respond because it is a thought-provoking one. jim, then bill and diana. >> i don't know if i would frame exactly the way you did. i would frame it a little bit differently. assume that the original principles are fairly thin and don't go very far, just assume that. there is still a lot that is important about making a nation that goes beyond those few thin principles that people should have to think about, and that are important for the nation. you mentioned the question of people's backgrounds are such that they don't believe in or don't subscribe to monogamous marriage. maybe they are consistent with the declaration, maybe they're not, i don't know. but there are other things about the good and bad that are extremely i

so all the activities universities undertake.undertake. one of the key things universities need to do is make sure they're retired members are properly looked after and that is why in due course this pensions deficit will have to be addressed. where could, how could the have been filled up until now to have stopped it getting to be quite so big, if not using these increase tuition fees? there are only three ways are plugging a deficit like this. the academics need to pay more into the scheme or the employers, the vice chancellors need to pay more into the scheme, or the benefits of the scheme have to be scaled back. there are no other options than those. in due course, those options will need to be investigated, but the assets are huge of this pension scheme, it is one of the largest in the country. if it is well—managed and the vice chancellors get their act together, which they haven't until now, they should be able to reduce the deficit over time and the impact will be less serious on existing and future members of the scheme.

ido been with for british universities?en you talk to students, they see they are going to be worse off than their parents. they're going to be worse off than the generations before them, because they are being saddled with huge amounts of debt, debt which is set to rise, notjust because of high interest rates, but because there was an actual new scheme under the teaching excellence framework would receive these rising. so, students across the country are beginning, as we saw at the election, to make our voices heard on this issue. they are saying enough is enough, and now we need a national debate over this issue. but, and it is a big but, far more people are going to university now, to abolish tuition fees would be mind—bogglingly expensive. £100 billion in extra spending between now and 2025. basically the country just could not afford it? as you have seen over the weekend and with some of the deals done since the election, this idea that there is simply not money left is a bit hard to swallow this time. also, look, let'

the supreme court has upheld twice in the past 15 years the university, public universities and it applies to private universities, it is constitutional to take into account race and ethnicity purposes of developing a diverse body for better education for all of those students. i happen to believe that it started with the case in 1980, and i don't want to give a legal lecture here, but we have separated out diversity as having an educational purpose and as having a remedy purpose of past discussion. the latter is not permitted as an argument. i think that has been a mistake. i think it takes it out of the historical context, and you can only understand this in a historical context. ok. that is the first point. you ask me the main question, has this worked? ok. i believe deeply it has worked. i think it has brought immigration into the judiciary and the united states. it has brought into calloused -- into countless other parts of society. to me, we have young people educated in an environment that was not racially and ethically diverse or internationally diverse or geographically diverse or

to go to university.tainability of our university system, forced the weaned deduction of student number controls and through social mobility that is been moving so strongly in the right direction sadly into reverse. what you're saying seems to be that the current is going to continue and yet we we re current is going to continue and yet we were told by damian green there will be some great national debate in the conservative party because of the progress thatjeremy corbyn seemed to be making to attract students. we always want to expose the shortcomings of labour's policies and damien's fat broking piece was to get a chance to reflect on how wrong we would be as a country to jeopardise the system and so the social mobility progress the system has enabled to reverse and he is right to do so. that is the government's responds on these latest figures from the iss about the level of debt some students are an with. let's go live to westminster and talk to the shadow education secretary. it is still labour poli

they say 82% of universal credit.small, number of people? absolutely not, we shouldn't forget when universal credit was voted for by the coalition and designed by iain duncan smith it was designed to cut support, to change the payment system, to a delayed approach. maria got her payment within six weeks. it's faster than average. the average the department for work and pensions talk about is 12 weeks. in the test area, we've had extra support wrapping around. we've seen delays of 12 weeks. why do you think these delays are so long? partly a deliberate system to pay four weeks in arrears rather than upfront which isn't what most people need. four weeks in arrears, but in some situations... 12 weeks. if you're renting privately, with many housing associations, that will automatically trigger your eviction notification because you're not paying rent on time. is its teething problems with the system? the four weeks will be built into the system. if it is a system in arrears. the intention with the introduction, the govern

universities today that i find very dismaying. one is the emphasis on political culture, pc. even administrators of seeming to fall into the trap of protecting their students from controversial opinions, providing bubble rooms for example. i wonder if you could comment on that and the second situation is i found it dismaying the other day to watch c-span in which there were two african-american professors and two feminist professors both in well-known universities talking about the irrelevance of the constitution, since they were not blacks and women, part of the decisionmaking at the time. i wonder if you could comment on that as well. >> guest: very easy question. it is appalling, disturbing, unsettling and i personally, this may be too simplified a response and may indicate i don't understand, the actual workings, when that happens, the lack of leadership on the part of whoever is running the university, not just the president, the faculty, it is awful. it is awful. it is unrealistic, doesn't have anything to do with understand

the company nike is the result two universities, the university -- the result of two universities, theity of oregon and stanford, so i tried to give back to those two schools. the other which means a lot to hsu, which has an outstanding leader in their cancer research area. david: the oregon science health university, you gave them $500 million dollars for cancer research. phil: some of it has been given in stock and some paid out over several years. david: you have two sons, one died tragically in the scuba diving accident. how have you tried to memorialize him in that way? phil: he was a big sports fan, so gave some money to the university of oregon for the new basketball arena, which was named after him. david: today, what is left for you to accomplish and what haven't you accomplished? phil: i look back and am happy particular round the philanthropy and what i've been able to do, but i take my time to think about those things and i'm feeling good about things right now. david: do consult with your wife on things like that? phil: absolutely, she has final approval. david: where did

are bad for america seventy two percent of democrats say colleges and universities are. of higher learning have a positive effect. country so is this proof that the republican party has ceased to be conservative in the traditional sense william f. buckley barry goldwater they honored education and it's become captured by a fossil fuel industry and a right wing whack job specifically a fossil fuel industry that says don't believe that science on climate change and right wing whack jobs who specifically say don't believe that science on evolution science is bad take science of the textbooks let's build museums to hating science it's just i mean the and it's just happened in the last two years of the amazing thing you look at the graph of republican approval of college and here if the six fifty six fifty six percent boom there is a very there is a very very simple explanation for that and it's because college campuses have become bastions of intolerance like actual the whole idea of safe spaces of thought police of people not being able to engage in the intellectual dialogu

the university has faced criticism in the past for its handling of sexual assault allegations, the universityght when brock turner only served three months in jail for rape. students were sent an an alert yesterday. we are waiting for more information from the department of public safety on campus. >> thank you. for more on some of the other headlines we are working on lets go to dave clark. >> here are some of the stories, the search was called off for a 70 year old ooze man that went missing tuesday, rescue crew as said they combed every rock and stone trying to find a man that fell from his boat. he is the owner of an oyster company in the area, 50 people including friends and family and rescue crews took part in the search before it was called off. >>> four san jose jail inmates overdosed yesterday and the main jail was put on lock down. they were taken to the santa clara medical center where they are expected to make a full recovery, investigators want to know how the drugs were smuggled in. >>> there is new information about the fire last week in downtown lafayette that destroyed nine b

universal. wouldn't this work in america? >> i'm not saying mathematically wouldn't work but culturally, many americans feel very tied to is this idea of choice. they don't like the idea of universal everyone gets one thing. americans like to have the right to say yes or no to anything. it's really engrained. don't tread on me to say all things for everyone is the same, it's kind of one of the reasons you saw people over the last years say things like they felt like obama was leading towards having socialist tendencies. it's this idea. >> you got bernie sanders and elizabeth warren talking about a single payer system that has republicans saying see, if we don't pass a bill in the bill now, we go to the issue. health care itself while unusual expensive in america, health care is not broken. coverage, access to health care is broken. >> if you said to someone, don't you think everyone should be cared for, that person might say back to you yes but i want my freedom more than that. >> yeah, it's an

here at the university that was phoenix mars mission which landed many mars in 2008. and now we're working on second one they're now doing the rex mission which is -- out there right now that is headed for an asteroid to bring back a sample of an asteroid. >> when did you get intrelsed in this story? >> that's a wonderful question. so i've always been interested in space and astronomy i think if you grow up in tucson you have to because of our beautiful dark skies came to university of arizona to study science and i got a job with the collector who was director michael drake, and my task was like he described it in a single line to me he said your job is to interview the old timers and capture their stories before they're gone. and so i think one of the first people i talk to was um whitaker and dozen other people and by the end of that i said there are so many more stories to capture let me keep working on this. and so i did that for about four years. i worked my way through, you know, under my undergraduate degree by doing interviews. i didn't know right away that i

which doesn't describe the whole universe. you describe the jane jacobs description of greenwich village, hudson street in the 1950s, this diverse area. go down hudson street today, 90 percent of the people you encounter are all of one political belief, there in one silo or we could describe it with fair accuracy. if another place where you find that is a place where you've spent most of your professional career, universities. universities today have speech codes, restrictions. they're shouting down violently attacking speakers. the administrations are not doing anything about this except putting slightly and saying how much they hate the speakers do, putting their own charles murray here at ati. work universities one of most close minded silos go growing up? i grew up in a republican suburb and i went to a democratic university called harvard, that's how they lured in the stronghold for nixon in 1960. nowadays the typical student goes from the 50 percent republican or democratic summer and goes to a 92 percent university. our

university.s a decision for parliament. not for me as the regulator. you say in terms of mature students, you are worried about it, maybe it is about flexibility and the timetable, but it is also about that money, isn't it? well, i am encouraged the number of 18—year—olds has not fallen, the number of disadvantaged students as a percentage... in terms of the mature students? i think the fees area mature students? i think the fees are a disadvantage for those students, they feel they have other debts and they do not want student debt. maybe there are opportunities to study part—time and in different ways. ok. thank you very much. this e—mailfrom chris, ways. ok. thank you very much. this e—mail from chris, my ways. ok. thank you very much. this e—mailfrom chris, my husband served a five—year electrical apprenticeship. in effect, he paid for his day release to college and paid tax on his weekly wage which helped fund those people luckily enough to attend a university. today more and more are tendin

the company nike is really the result two universities, the university of oregon, which started the ideashoes, and stanford which had the entrepreneurship education. so i tried to give back to those two schools. the other which means a lot to me is oshu, which has an outstanding leader in their cancer research area. david: the oregon science health university, you gave them $500 million dollars for cancer research. you've also given recently $400 million for a program at -- for a new fellowship program at stanford university. when you give a $400 million, $500 million, do you write a check out or wire the money and is it hard to write the check? [laughter] phil: yes. it is a little bit of -- some of it has been given in stock and some paid out over a few years. david: you had two sons, one died tragically in the scuba diving accident. in his honor you have done some things. how have you tried to memorialize him in that way? phil: he was a big sports fan, so we gave some money to the university of oregon for their new basketball arena, which is named after him. david: today, what is left

the company nike is really the result of two universities.ity of oregon and stanford, so i tried to get back -- give back to those two schools. the other one that means a lot osu, which has a very outstanding leader in their cancer research area. david the oregon science health : university, you gave them $500 million dollars for cancer research. you also gave $400 million for a new scholarship program at stanford university. when you give that gift, do you write a check out or do you just hand them the money -- is it hard to write out that check? phil: yes. some of it has been given in stock and some paid out over several years. david: you have two sons, one died tragically in the scuba diving accident. how have you tried to memorialize him in that way? phil: he was a big sports fan, so we gave some money to the university of oregon for the new basketball arena, which was named after him. david: today, what is left for you to accomplish and what do you want to look up list you have not accomplished? phil: i look back over the past couple of

and if you do get to university.necessarily be going to university. a lot of people graduate with debt and are not secure graduatejobs. not graduate with debt and are not secure graduate jobs. not all degrees of the same. lumping them all in one category is dangerous. some degrees are useless. name one. gender studies is a worthless degree and you should not be paying for it. you're being generous with other people's money and asking other people's money and asking other people too... i love shaking that money tree. love it. i can't shake it enough. it's like when i used to go to church. finally, i love the story. this is the daily express. jean—claude juncker, president of the eu commission, has gone to the european parliament. now want for his arrival and that of the malta leader. he got very agitated and angry. he is like the old headmaster telling of the old schoolboys. it was a classic visa tv, i am told. the express also tells us that the european parliament, which will as we know is and democratic and roger ha

the company nike is really the result of two universities.y of oregon and -- oregon, which started the and of running shoes, stanford, which had the odd partnership education. so i tried to give back to those -- entrepreneurship education. so i tried to give back to those two schools. the other one that means a lot to me is osu, which has a very outstanding leader in their cancer research area. david: the oregon health science university you gave them $500 , million dollars for cancer research. you also gave $400 million for a new scholarship program at stanford university. mike tennessee fellows -- the mike tennessee fellows. when you give that gift, do you write a check out or do you just hand them the money -- is it hard to write out that check? phil: yes. some of it has been given in stock and some paid out over a few years. david: you have two sons, one died tragically in a scuba diving accident. in his honor, you have done some things. how have you tried to memorialize him in that way? phil: well he was a big sports , fan, so we gave so

the university of oregon for phil: well he was a big sports fan, so gave some money to the university for their new basketball arena, which was named after him. david: today, what is left for you to accomplish and what haven't you accomplished? phil: i look back on the last couple of years and i am happy in those years, particularly around the philanthropy and what i've been able to do and will be ahead, but i take my time to think about those things and i'm feeling good about things right now. david: so do consult with your wife on things like that? phil: absolutely, she has final approval. [laughter] david: now, where did you meet your wife? phil: i taught for two years at oregon state and she was one of my students. david: she was a good student? phil: she was a very good student. she was a better student than i was. david: it is unrealistic to make these kinds of products in the united states, you would say, these shoes and those kinds of things? phil: it is as we speak, but the manufacturing technology is changing very rapidly, so 5-10 to 10 years, there will be shoe manufacturin

leo lee university. the senior journalistic seminar at the east-west center university of hawaii, the paul miller fellowship at the national journalism foundation, and the casey fellowships at the university of maryland. were deeply honored to welcome the ambassador to the world affairs council d.c. podium. as part of our 2017 investor series. [applause] [inaudible] >> good evening ladies and gentlemen. before i begin like to thank tony the remarkable board at the first council they did next line job organizing this event. and for their unwavering commitment to education and providing a platform for open dialogue. ladies and gentlemen, if you have been following the news from the region, i'm sure you're well aware that qatar -- saudi arabia and the united emirates has imposed an illegal political, economic and social blockade against my country. this country decided overnight to close down all borders and airspace. stop for food and medicine during the holy month of ramadan expel all the citizens from th

thank you for joining university of birmingham. thank you forjoining us.at a week and what 324 forjoining us. what a week and what a 2k hours! what of the white house looked like at the moment? chaos. the watchword you will get from trump and his loyalists is stability, everything is sorted out, but the fact is that the immediate cause of this is the new appointment of anthony scaramucci, a man with no communications experience, and the president has excepted that, but instead of chastising anthony scaramucci over the insults of priebus, but trump has not only decided to dismiss priebus, not even giving staff a week to make the transition. this comes 2a hours after the white house failed to get through its major piece of edges they should, be rescinded a and of 0bama careful. this federal budget coming up in september, and rather than deal with this, trump is going into his bunker, surrounding himself with family, anthony scaramucci and people like generaljohn kelly. what's the appeal to mr trump? unquestioned loyalty, more than anything. john kelly has be

university, hcc paris, and ucl london. in terms of transparency that we are very big on at the world affairs council, we should inform you that we have had a long and valued relationship with the state of qatar during the 38 years since our founding. the qatar foundation was the recipient of our 2014 global education award that was accepted on behalf of the foundation by sheikh amosa. they've had ambassador programs and supported our national world affairs honors and global education gala. qatar's population is -- question, anybody know? you just googled it. ruled out of bounds. all right. it's 2 million, 258, 283 people and out of that number, 11.6% our native qataris and 88.4% are non-qataris. bilateral relations between the united states and qatar are strong. qatar hosts the u.s. military central command and they're deployed in qatar and actively supports the so-called islamic state. it serves as qatar's largest investor and these include aircraft, machinery, vehicles, medical instruments and agricultural products. qata

universities only have a limited number of sources of income.ource of income is obviously from student fees and it seems inconceivable to me that student fees will not have to be diverted into plugging the pension deficit. under international accounting rules, the uss pension scheme deficit almost doubled from £8.5 billion last year to £17.5 billion this year. now that gives the scheme, which has almost 400,000 members, lecturers and academics, the dubious distinction of being a record pension deficit for this country. but the chief executive of the scheme says it's way too early to think about hiking student fees. we are not responsible for setting tuition fees, clearly, but we have agreed a framework with the universities to manage the shortfall that exists within the pension plan without putting an unreasonable burden on their business models. and we have agreed a framework for looking at how pensions, contributions and the investment risk will continue to provide quality pensions for the members of the scheme. distinguished academic, joan ha

we talked about the university, we have ought talked about university. used to enjust mean oxford and cambridge. now to 20% of the estates in the british parliament hayes students and staff from universities and also lots of generally speaking liberal-minded graduates who stay in certain towns and parts of towns. bristol west, not just -- brighton. you might say there's anywhere-somewhere places. anywheres go to establish new roots, that -- anywheres generally don't -- they're not from -- they leave home but they find -- they become kind of rooted and established, and anywheres have as much group thinkers. often they're better educated. think the whole -- i mean, the mass-ification of higher education, i sometimes say, explaining brexit, say i blame the masses for brexit. mass immigration and mass higher education. have produced brexit. the two masses. >> okay. over here, the lady in the white jacket. >> hello. thank you for coming. i'm cynthia butler, an attorney in town itch worked on a number of political campaigns. my question is what in the elite or

were celebrating the creation of the university.he central building is cutler hall. appreciatefficiently how much education mattered to the founders, and how much emphasis they put on education as being essential to whether the whole idea of democracy was going to work. jefferson said, any nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never could be. that idea of the importance of education i think is extremely pertinent, relevant, and important today as it ever was. i think one of the things we americans don't sufficiently appreciate -- there is a lot that we have and have achieved that we don't sufficiently appreciate, but one of them is our college and university system. yes, they have got very expensive, too expensive. and some have gotten too politically correct or incorrect or whatever. but we have created the greatest universities and colleges in the world, and we have more of them than any country in the world. and now the percentage of who gets to go to college keeps rising steadily. i don't know a

the universities superannuation scheme caters for existing and retired academics.ficit is down to poor management. i think the root cause of it is the uss trustees going down to the casino and betting the money they have been given by universities on equities. i've just checked the figures this morning, in 2008, the scheme was in surplus. a lot of people including me have been warning that this was a problem. uss have been kicking the can down the road for a number of years and i think now, they will have to face up to it and do something. what is the bet the trustees have made that hasn't paid off? they have been taking money from individual members of the scheme and from employers, could have putting that in safe investments, bonds, which match the pensions. but they haven't, they have been putting the assets into equities, hedge funds and other complex and risky bets. our business correspondent, joe lynam, explained how difficult it would be to clear the pension scheme's deficit. if you have a pensions black hole and you're a private pensions, basically a saving

, northwestern university, hcc pairs and ucl london. in terms of transparency which we are very big on at the world affairs council we should inform you that we have had a long and valued relationship with the state of qatar during the 38 years since our founding. the conair foundation was the recipient of our 2014 global education award that was accepted on behalf of the -- the ambassadors of qatar heaven participated in our investor programs and supported our annual world affairs global education gala. qatar's population is question -- anyone know? did you just google it and will out of bounds. all right. is a 2,000,258, 283 people. out of that number 11.6% are native qatari's and 88.4% are non- qatari's. bilateral relations between the united states and qatar are strong. qatar host the us military central command. they have 11000 americans deployed in qatar and actively support native operations against the so-called islamic state. the united states serve as qatar's largest foreign investor and is the largest source of imported goods

>> bthey have great technical universities but not global universities. look at what is produced by the list dominated by the u.s.. germany has great technical universities but it doesn't upgrade sort of general universities. with the exception of technical universities but they are more broad-based and general universities that don't really exist, places like heidelberg doesn't attract huge flows of students. in the 20th or the 19th century. [inaudible] it's actually a deliberative model of policy. the government doesn't stream larger amounts of money so it doesn't have an oxford or cambridge or harvard or yale. they come here or go to britain for our education. >> i'm a student at the school of public service. so it seems that we are seeing a global trend in the rise of big men. did speak [inaudible] how do you feel that the growing chasm between the two in some ways is relating to this rise? >> there is the invitations are being governed by institutions and you can see that's where after the death they tried deliberately to move away from a personal li