University standards have slipped too far

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University standards have slipped too far

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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Measures of academic competency are falling among young people in America. In response, universities are dumbing things down. It’s time they raised their standards of both instruction and admission.

Topics covered:

Higher education
Grade inflation
Apprenticeships

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