Jason Soon responds to my post on the failure of radical free-market reform by restating the case for a competitive model in higher education. This is a complex issue, and my counterarguments are too lengthy for a blog post. You can find them in detail in my submission to a recent Senate inquiry. It’s also available as a PDF file
For now, I’ll just observe that, outside fairly narrow forms of vocational training (as exemplified by the Australian commercial VET sector and the ‘University’ of Phoenix in the US), for-profit education has never been a success.