Soaring student numbers pose funding and quality challenges for universities in OECD countries
there's alot i could say about this, but for the moment i'll limit myself to mentioning that this debate, like most in the states, could benefit from a less parochial frame of reference. this link goes to the oecd's 2008 report on higher education, and outlines a range of state-level strategies that have been adopted to address the questions of access to quality education and how to deal with its expense. the american system is outmoded, functioning mostly to reproduce the class system at the expense of enabling kids from a range of class backgrounds to access the best quality education they can manage.