March 17, 2006

Government Support for Higher Education

To the Editor:

Gordon Davies argues that Americans should be careful not to repeat the mistake of New Zealand in "deregulating" higher education by permitting institutions to compete freely for government funds ("The Lessons of Deregulation," The Chronicle Review, January 20). The result in New Zealand, he avers, has been to siphon money away from important educational fields such as medicine and engineering and instead squander it on educationally dubious courses of study that

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