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The costs seem even more ludicrous when you consider that these colleges and universities are part of such a poor education system. According to the New York Times last December, US workers are now so ignorant and lacking in basic skills that employers are spending over $30 billion a year on remedial education. Not training, remedial education. We now rank 49th in the world in literacy and 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy.
And for the first time in 30 years, last year fewer foreign students enrolled in US schools and colleges. Meanwhile overseas enrollment increased in Europe and even in China of all places.
It is also a factor that college students are spending a considerable amount of time learning the basics needed to ensure they can cope with the college courses proper. If these were taught in high school, as they are in most other developed countries, the time spent at college could easily be reduced by 25%.
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