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There. Stephen metcalf. As you know, my right honorable friend will know, the successful launch of the Engineering Campaign aimed at changing the perception of engineering and inspiring the next generation of engineers. The Prime Minister is personally committed to this campaign so can i invite him to join me and 80,000 other people at the big bang best to reinforce the message that engineering is a great career and open to everyone regardless of background and gender. My right honorable friend ...

We also invite your participation via twitter using hashtag pmq. Members are finishing up other business. Now live to the floor of the british house of commons. At the j mcn on 16th october. These facilitated official engagement and expect significant progress in the coming months including publishing our analysis. The secretary of state, any indication about how they use the power they will be receiving . As i said in response to a previous question we have nothing about how they intend to use ...

Minister . Stephen metcalf. The Prime Minister. Thank you, mister speaker. I am sure members will join me in marking Holocaust Memorial day this saturday and remembering all those who endured such appalling suffering in holocaust. I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others in addition to my duties in this house, i should have further such meeting later today and later traveled to switzerland to attend the World Economic forum. I might even bump into the shadow chancellor while i am th...

Are wrong about what happens in college. Better alternatives, its good to have money in the bank. Your kid decides they dont want to go to college who want to start a business its nice to get the kids money and let them use it to start their business instead of paying for them to binge drink or something. In terms of how much, there are a lot of people in the audience with badges that say they are in Capital Management or Something Like that and they could probably advise you better. My own port...

Arts education at all. As a matter of fact people who actually read and think and write are in surprisingly short supply. I have a friend who has a business and she heard a couple of people. Her job was to write catalog and amazon product descriptions. They came out with a distinguished Marketing Program and they could not write a coherent paragraph. She was like having to rewrite them. There is a lot of demand for people who can actually read and think and write. Its significantly unmet demand ...

[applause] questions . [inaudible] s James Taranto points out that the u. S. Supreme Court Decision that essentially outlawed the use of iq tests in lieu of College Degrees to permit people who are not College Graduates to get jobs that matched up with their iqs because in some way they were racially discriminatory i believe. I dont remember the name. It had disparate impact. Disparate impact case. It strikes me that when you speak of credentialing of some sort that is in a College Diploma you m...

[applause] thank you very much. Ive never been but i knew. One small correction. 10,000 page view from a link is not bad. You can double, triple, or quadruple as long as it contains the word boobies. Ive never been able to do it one of johns. Maybe hell be inspired to offer something. John is right. My take on education in america is Higher Education and k12 education comes from it. Somebody like to call it sign law. Originally propounded as something cannot go on forever. It will stop. And freq...

Glenn reynolds who was recently on booktv. I mean, 40 of College Graduates wind up in jobs they could have gotten without a College Degree. Whats the difference between a starbucks barista and a barista who went to college . Underground [inaudible] which barista would you rather be . You can watch this entire interview at booktv. Org. On wednesday booktv tweeted a New York Times article on the future of the ox forked Oxford English dictionary, and on facebook we posted a link to a Huffington Pos...

You are watching booktv. Next, Glenn Reynolds argues that americans need to start looking for alternatives to our public and Higher Education systems which he argues are either subpar, too expensive, or both. He proposes a multipronged approach made up of charter or private schools and Online Education. This is about 40 minutes. Thank you very much. Ive never been lapidary before. But i knew. One small correction to what john said. 10,000 page view from lake is not bad but if you can double, tri...

Thank you for your comments. Ive been thinking about these questions for a long time. One of the areas that interests me a great deal is the whole question of what happens to the humanities . Obviously the orientation that you see in Higher Education is vocation. When you talk about community colleges, they may survive because of vocational education. What happens to our civilization when student does not read play to, aristotle. Dont have the foggy is idea who they are, do not know what this in...