Though the existing regulatory framework designed to guarantee the quality of a postsecondary institution aren't working, it's important to thoroughly consider and understand the proposed alternatives before jumping in.
Federal policy is the poster child for this approach to quality assurance. It relies on accreditation agencies as the primary gatekeepers to federal aid, but these agencies engage in a peer review process that rewards mimicry and rarely leads to real sanctions. Federal rules insist on antiquated definitions of degrees, certificates and credit hours while paying minimal attention to student outcomes.
This policy regime has failed—often spectacularly—on two key fronts. First, it has not held existing colleges and universities to a high enough standard. Although Democrats have tried to cast these quality issues as being limited to for-profits, lackluster student outcomes transcend tax status.
Second, while federal policies have kept bad colleges in, their emphasis on inputs has also kept new models out. If you don't offer degrees or certificates, or if you measure learning as opposed to seat time, you rarely "count" as a postsecondary institution. Your students may learn a lot and get good jobs, but if you don't have PhD-trained faculty organized into degree-granting academic departments, you need not apply.
Misguided "free college" proposals largely wave their hands at these deep-seated problems. But some policymakers (on both sides of the aisle) are working to rethink the federal role. Needed is a comprehensive reform agenda—informed by careful experimentation—that changes the incentives for existing colleges and challenges their credentialing monopoly.
Existing quality assurance policies operate as binary variables—schools are either accredited or not, their cohort default rates are either below the threshold or not, and they're either licensed by the state or not.
The all-or-nothing nature of these policies does two things. First, it gives poorly performing institutions that can just get over the bar little reason to improve, and gives regulators few tools to encourage them to do so. Schools with a 27 percent default rate have the same access to federal aid as schools with a 2.7 percent default rate. And because the stakes of revoking eligibility are so high, regulators are gun-shy to do so (see here and here, for example). Shifting to a system that holds all colleges accountable for performance on a continuous outcome variable—like a loan repayment rate—is a better approach.
Second, all-or-nothing policies make it much riskier to let new providers in. Once a provider is deemed eligible for federal aid, it can access the full complement of loan, grant, and tax credit programs. A tiered eligibility system, where new organizations gain limited access until they've proven their mettle, could lower barriers to entry while limiting taxpayer risk.
Higher education reformers—myself included—have routinely called for "outcomes-based" regulation. In theory, this is the way to go. In practice, it is harder than it sounds.
For one thing, regulating on the basis of student outcomes can create incentives for providers to "cream-skim," or admit only the best students. As my colleague Kevin James argued in a recent paper on accountability in other sectors, studies have shown that training providers tended to enroll fewer risky students once they were held accountable for employment outcomes under the Workforce Investment Act.
There are also important questions about how to define and measure outcomes. Higher education programs are more difficult to evaluate than WIA programs. Stakeholders disagree on what outcomes to measure (learning? Earnings? Civic engagement?) and when to measure them. Even if we could agree, the feds currently lack the ability to collect the type of data necessary to measure most outcomes.
Regulators shouldn't shy away from using student outcomes to judge providers, but they must acknowledge these concerns. Outcomes-based policies should only be based on sound, complete data and should, where possible, measure the value added by colleges (not the quality of admitted students).
The current regulatory regime attempts to limit risk by compelling providers to comply with various rules. These rules govern aid eligibility, but give colleges little "skin in the game" when it comes to student outcomes. The vast majority of colleges are paid in full whether their students are successful or not.
Instead, regulators should require providers to take on more risk. That might mean putting existing institutions on the hook for loans that their students fail to repay. Colleges could either buy an insurance policy to cover the financial risk or make payments to the federal government. This "risk-sharing" approach—discussed years ago by my colleague Alex Pollock—has begun to attract bipartisan support.
For new providers, policymakers could require them to put up their own capital to gain access to the market, either as a surety bond or in a pay-for-success agreement, where the provider fronts the money and is reimbursed based on their success. This would also leverage the private market in ensuring quality. Most new providers would have to raise capital from private investors or lenders, but funders would only have incentive to backstop organizations that are likely to be successful, thereby adding another layer of quality assurance.
There is a growing sense on the left that our existing voucher-funded higher education market does not and cannot force institutions to contain costs and focus on student success. Their solution is to substitute regulatory power for market discipline; hence "free college" proposals that call for a much more active federal role in shaping how colleges spend money and serve students.
The market certainly does not work as well as it should. But it's a mistake to place all accountability in the hands of government regulators. No matter how insulated they are, regulators are subject to politics, and colleges are politically powerful.
Time and time again, we've seen institutions of higher education successfully appeal to their political masters for a reprieve from sanctions. That's because it is much easier for those institutions to lobby for an indulgence than to convince thousands of consumers to continue purchasing your product. Sanctioning institutions only makes regulators' lives more difficult. Individual consumers have incentive to seek out the options that best fit their needs.
The papers referenced here are obviously not a call for laissez faire, market-based accountability. But reformers must recognize how politics can limit even the most well designed regulatory regime. Consumer choice is still the key to meaningful quality assurance in higher education, and reforms should empower them to choose wisely.
I've been skeptical of the reform movement in higher education, but this is pretty thoroughly thought out. I agree that things need to change, but so much of what has been put forward in the past just isn't feasible, and generally betrays a complete lack of understanding of how the current system functions. At least here we're getting somewhere.


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Kim Kardashian leaves girls in tears with odd Australia's Next Top Model appearance
By Adam Bub| 6 years ago
Kim Kardashian's highly publicised stint as a guest judge on Australia's Next Top Model finally aired on Thursday night, sparking hysteria among the star-struck models on the show.
There was screaming, tears and "OMGs" aplenty – watch the girls' priceless reaction to Kim above.
Despite all the freaking out, Kim never actually met the 11 models. That's right, the 34-year-old set a social media challenge via a pre-recorded video…wait a second, wasn't she in Australia twice during filming late last year? Get it together, Kim!
Fans noticed the star's bizarre absence on Twitter:
Kim wasn't even there for the feedback session, having her comments read out by mentors Cheyenne Tozzi and Didier Cohen. However, she returned in another pre-record to announce the winner. Phew.
For the fashion blogging challenge, the models were asked to style themselves in Kardashian Kollection clothes (you didn't think Kim was doing this just for charity, right?) and take the perfect street style photo. The winner got to feature on both Kim and the Kardashian Kollection's Instagram accounts, which have a combined tally of nearly 34 million followers (20 million at the time of the show's filming).
The lucky winner was 21-year-old Sydneysider Izi Simundic:
Izi featured on Kim's Instagram account on Thursday night. Image: Instagram.
While most of the show's fans were excited to see Kim as a judge, some questioned the promotion of Kim's fashion line.
The Top Model judges have also been vocal about Kim, with host Jennifer Hawkins telling OK! she wasn't a "massive fan" and Alex Perry telling TheFIX Kim shouldn't be called "a role model". Watch them sound off about Kim in our interview below:
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The New Business Visa rules seem anything but and already industries are feeling the negative effect of them.
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by Mary Lane
From time to time I'd thought about returning to Papua New Guinea where my husband, Les Anderson, had worked with Adventist Aviation Services (AAS), but somehow the time, distance, cost and emotional energy necessary to make such a trip happen seemed more than I could manage. My assault by two raskols (criminals) early in our four-year stint and Les's death in a 2002 plane crash had taken a heavy emotional toll on me.
I'd heard about the upcoming centenary anniversary celebrations for AAS in 2014 and considered attending but wasn't sure if I was ready to open up memory's door quite so wide. After a lot of thought I decided not to go. Then I received a personal invitation from Bennett Spencer, the CEO of AAS. Halfway through reading it I burst into tears. I was shocked that emotions, long suppressed, could overflow without warning. That's when I knew that going back was something I wanted and needed to do. There was no guarantee that healing or closure would happen but I was willing to gamble on the possibility.
When Les and I first went to Ethiopia in the '60s—young, naïve and enthusiastic—we had no understanding of the reality of mission service. Going to PNG 30-plus years later, I thought I knew what to expect—the separation from family, the difficulty with communication, the dangers to health and person, church politics and interpersonal conflicts and, for me, the ever present concern for Les's safety. I knew he loved his work. He had always wanted to be a missionary and had learned to fly specifically to assist him with this work.
Three days before that fateful Friday he admitted he was tired, that he guessed he had gotten flying out of his system and was ready to go home. I wasn't surprised. He was not a shirker and if a job needed to be done he would do it. But he was carrying a heavy load.
Months after his death I was leafing through our Marriage Encounter notebooks from the '80s and found a letter Les had written to me. He wrote about flying and the possibility of dying in a plane crash, thanking me for giving him the freedom to do what he loved though it was dangerous, and acknowledging that I spent many anxious hours awaiting his return. In conclusion he said he just wanted me to know that if he died, I should remember that he was content because he had God's love and mine, and that was enough. In my head I knew this to be true—that God's love is ultimately "enough" to carry us through every circumstance. However, when lived out in real time, I saw "through a glass darkly". Our four years in Goroka were the best and worst years of my life; the highs so high I felt like I was in heaven and the lows so low I wanted to die.
I believe the Lord took me by the hand and led me step by step on my journey. He gave me an understanding travelling companion, my husband Dave Giles, who had been a friend of Les's long before the untimely deaths of our respective spouses. Dave's eldest son had also died in a plane crash so he was well acquainted with the emotions that swirled around in my heart.
But now it was the return journey—first from our home in the United States to Australia and then onwards to PNG. As we walked through the Cairns departure gate I glanced out the window and saw the Air Niugini plane sitting on the tarmac. I could scarcely breathe. I expected to have moments of panic or tears at the house, the gravesite or the hangar, but certainly not before I got to PNG. This episode surprised me because it was so unexpected and so sudden. Thankfully it was also brief.
We arrived in Goroka during a heavy shower. Everything seemed so familiar. The baggage unloading and collection were exactly the same as when we'd lived there and took just as long. The same metal gates kept back the noisy, jostling crowds. Billboards that used to advertise condoms and warn about AIDS were now plastered with cell phone ads. The market, sports field, stores along the highway, Kabiufa School—all were the same. When we drove up to the gate of our old house, we were introduced to a whole crowd of new faces. Dave, being a pastor pilot like Les, fitted right in. I didn't feel like talking so I walked inside alone, seeing Les everywhere, heavy with a sense of loss. But soon little children were running in and out, laughing and playing, and others wandered inside to visit while we ate our late meal. The painful past was engulfed in the vibrant, cheerful, noisy present, and it felt good.
I didn't go back to PNG to be a tourist, though I had many opportunities to take pictures and travel. I didn't go back to have fun, though Bennett and others kindly arranged for us to participate in many delightful activities similar to those that had brought me great joy when I lived in Goroka. I went back to find closure. From the moment they brought Les's body back to the hangar until I left PNG, I had been in a state of shock. Everything happened so suddenly there just wasn't time to finish what I wanted to do, say what I wanted to say, see those I wanted to see before my departure. Now with this second visit AAS was giving me an opportunity to attend to some of that unfinished business.
The 12 years since my departure had compressed my longings to a single wish. More than anything else I wanted to visit Les's grave. First thing. First hour if possible. But it didn't happen that way. I was asked to delay my visit a day because a crew was fixing up the headstones and wanted everything to look nice before I saw it. I appreciated the sentiment but I could have handled the construction better than the waiting. On the next day when I did try to go, I found the graveyard fenced and the gate padlocked. I thought about becoming a raskol and climbing over the wires. Instead, I left a lily stuck in the chain and walked away heartbroken. I'd come so far and waited so long for this moment, only to be shut out. The feeling of disappointment was intense.
I share this experience not to make anyone feel bad but to recognise that often our minds fixate on things that we believe will help us move forward. Visiting Les's grave was that one thing for me. Fortunately the locked gate was not the end of the story. Later I was given a gate key to keep for the duration of my stay and was able to visit the graveyard as often as I wished. The very first time I went I found my lily leaning against Les's headstone and thanked the Lord for the kindness of the person who'd placed it there.
So what did I do in the graveyard? I studied the headstone and the smashed propeller, which I had not seen before. I thought about how grateful I was that Les had not suffered and that his body had been recovered. I thought about the individual people Les had touched during his years in PNG, about the work of AAS, about the years of my own life since I had last knelt there beside his grave. I prayed for my national friends still labouring in PNG, for the staff of AAS and the challenges they face every day, for my children and Les's family who wanted to be with me, and for the families of all the others buried in that quiet place. I asked the Lord for a faith strong enough to hold me until I could talk to Him face to face.
Sitting under the trees all alone, I sang songs of hope, longing and thanksgiving as I gazed out over the valley towards Elimbari. I stayed until my tears were spent and my heart was at peace. It was not easy to revisit the pain and loss but by doing so I found healing and closure. On my final visit, Bennett's wife Dalena and their children helped me carry armloads of flowers to place on all the graves. Dry-eyed and hopeful, I locked the gate for the final time, so very thankful to the Lord and AAS for allowing me to return.
Altogether we spent 10 days in Goroka. Dave usually drove to the hangar with Bennett and I stayed with Dalena and the children in Kabiufa, so it was like old times. How quickly the routine returned. How familiar the stories around the supper table. How delightful the hike up the Kabiufa houseline, the visits to the market, the music at Town Church. The flight to Maimafu and Kora was beautiful, though I admit I was apprehensive about flying. The airplane seemed way too big for the short grassy strips. Maimafu is still steep and scary but I closed my eyes and saw Les preaching at the camp meeting we attended there the Sabbath before he died. The evangelistic meetings in Goroka every night, the parades Thursday and Friday morning, the well-trained Pathfinder drill team, the marching ladies bands, the flight to Kopiago where pioneer Len Barnard first worked—every day was a blessing. I found dear national friends whom I never expected to see again on this earth and it was as though we had never been apart. I made new friends among the former AAS pilots and felt incredibly blessed by the support and love they showed me during my visit.
Sabbath was the best day of all. I had seen huge crowds at meetings before but it was a profoundly moving sight for Dave. We were surrounded by a brotherhood of AAS workers and an immense family of national believers and friends. After observing the scene for a while, Dave asked, "If Les could see this crowd of believers who have come to celebrate what the Lord and AAS have done for them, do you think he would feel it was worth the sacrifice?"
A young man sang "What a Day That Will Be" and I quietly hummed a harmony part. I thought about Les, about the other loved ones we have laid to rest and longed for Jesus to come soon. Yes, on that glorious morning it will indeed be "worth it all".
Mary Lane lives in the United States with her husband Dave.
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Село розташоване на відстані 165 км на північний схід від Бухареста, 7 км на північний захід від Фокшан, 79 км на північний захід від Галаца, 116 км на схід від Брашова.

Населення
За даними перепису населення 2002 року у селі проживали  осіб, усі — румуни. Усі жителі села рідною мовою назвали румунську.

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Q: Applying same function but different calculations to different lists that has binary columns in loop with lapply The title can be confusing but I guess it has a simple solution. I have my own function and I want to apply same function to multiple lists that consists of two columns. But I need to do different calculations to each column separately.
As an example mydata is:
    x1   x2   y1   y2   z1  z2
1  0.0  0.0  0.0  7.8  0.0 8.6
2  8.6  0.0  0.0  7.6  1.6 1.4
3 11.2  7.8  3.4  1.2  7.6 0.0
4  8.4  7.6 21.4 10.2 23.6 0.0
5  0.0  1.2  1.8  7.0  3.2 0.0
6  0.0 10.2  1.4  0.0  0.0 0.0

mydata<-structure(list(x1 = c(0, 8.6, 11.2, 8.4, 0, 0), x2 = c(0, 0,
7.8, 7.6, 1.2, 10.2), y1 = c(0, 0, 3.4, 21.4, 1.8, 1.4), y2 = c(7.8,
7.6, 1.2, 10.2, 7, 0), z1 = c(0, 1.6, 7.6, 23.6, 3.2, 0), z2 = c(8.6,
1.4, 0, 0, 0, 0)), .Names = c("x1", "x2", "y1", "y2", "z1", "z2"
), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -6L))

And myfun function is:
        myfun<- function(x) {
  means<-sapply(list(x), function(ss) mean(ss, na.rm = T))
  #my point: vars<-sapply(list(y), function(ss) var(ss, na.rm = T))
  mean<-means[[1]]
  #var<-vars[[1]]
  #lists<-list(mean, var)
  #names(lists) <- c("mean", "var")
  #return(lists)
  lists<-list(mean)
  names(lists)<-c("mean")
  return(lists)
}

I used #for parts that will be added later in the myfun.
When I tried
results<-lapply(mydata, myfun)
I can apply same function and same calculation to each column.
As you see there are 2 columns(x1-x2, y1-y2, z1-z2) for each data (x, y, z).
What I want is:
1) Obtaining means of first columns (x1, y1, z1)
2) Obtaining variances of second columns (x2, y2, z2)
3) And as output; I want to see results of mean1and var1for each data under x, y and z lists like:
x-> mean1 (mean of x1)
    var1  (var of x2)

y-> mean1 (mean of y1)
    var1  (var of y2)

4) Do all these in a loop with lapply or sapply or with any useful function.
Notes:
1) I did not group x1 and x2 under x, y1 and y2 under y. Because If a solution can be found for mydata form, it would be more useful for me. But if it is necessary I can group them separately.
2) myfun function is finding means of 6 columns now. I have indicated the additional parts that will be used to calculate variances of second columns with #

A: I would start by splitting the dataframe to create a list of dataframes with 2 columns.
At the point you can use lapply or map_dfr to apply the function mean_var to each of the elements of the list.
The advantage of map_dfr is that it return a dataframe, binding the rows of the function output.
library(purrr)

my_data_l <- split.default(mydata, rep(1:3, each = 2))

mean_var <- function(x) {
    list(mean = mean(x[,1]), var = var(x[,2]))
}

map_dfr(my_data_l, mean_var)

A: Consider assigning your groups first, then iterate off this with lapply. In fact use sapply with simplify=FALSE for a named list.
grps <- unique(gsub("[0-9]", "", colnames(mydata)))
# [1] "x" "y" "z"

myfun <- function(grp)
             list(mean = mean(mydata[,paste0(grp, 1)]),
                  variance = var(mydata[,paste0(grp, 2)]))

mean_var_list <- sapply(grps, myfun, simplify = FALSE)

mean_var_list
# $x
# $x$mean
# [1] 4.7
#
# $x$variance
# [1] 20.87467
#
# $y
# $y$mean
# [1] 4.666667
#
# $y$variance
# [1] 16.53467
#
# $z
# $z$mean
# [1] 6
#
# $z$variance
# [1] 11.85067

Or use the default, simplify=TRUE and return a matrix.
mean_var_mat <- sapply(grps, myfun)

mean_var_mat
#          x        y        z
# mean     4.7      4.666667 6
# variance 20.87467 16.53467 11.85067

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Q: Running Python in Excel -Terminal Flashes but the code does not execute The python script that I have written works in VS Code. it both writes to the terminal when prompted as well as writes a new excel file (which is the goal). However, when run in excel, the script runs and then does not do anything. The terminal flashes but the code does not execute
When attempting this from excel, I have ensured that all excel files (and even vs code) were closed. The macro to run the code is in a separate file. What am I missing? Thanks!
Python
import pandas as pd
import nameSplitter

Names = nameSplitter
to_drop = ['Question 2']

Names.df.drop(columns=to_drop, inplace=True)

sortedValues = Names.df.loc[Names.df['School Site'] == 3].sort_values('Question 1')

sortedValues.to_excel('sortedValues.xlsx', index=None)

VBA
Sub RunPythonScript()
'Procedure to run a Python Script in a VBA Procedure using the shell

    'Declaration
    Dim objShell As Object 'For the Shell
    Dim Pythonexe, PythonScript As String

    'Create the Shell Object
    Set objShell = VBA.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

    Pythonexe = """C:\Users\natha\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\python.exe""" 'path of the python.exe
    PythonScript = "C:\Users\natha\OneDrive\Desktop\form-filters-master\form-filters-master\project\QuantitativeData.py" 'path of your Python script

    'Run your Python script
    objShell.Run Pythonexe & " " & PythonScript 'run takes two arguments

End Sub


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George Macpherson-Grant may refer to:

Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 1st Baronet (1781–1846), MP for Sutherland
Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 3rd Baronet (1839–1907)
Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 5th Baronet (1890-1951), of the Macpherson-Grant Baronets

See also
George MacPherson
George Grant (disambiguation)


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Ryan Giggs delighted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan's strong start to the season
Ryan Giggs has admitted that he has been delighted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan's strong start to the new season at Manchester United, according to The Sport Review.
Former Manchester United star Giggs believes that it is great news for the Red Devils that Mkhitaryan has got his season off to a flyer with some fine displays.
Speaking to Sky Sports, Giggs said: "They look powerful with Nemanja Matic and Romelu Lukaku, but what is pleasing to see is the creative players doing well as well.
"Henrikh Mkhitaryan already has four assists and that will do him the world of good, so hopefully he can get back to his Dortmund form."
"There's a lot of players contributing to goals which is crucial to winning the league. Juan Mata scores year-in-year-out, Antony Martial chipping in and when Marcus Rashford and Mkhitaryan join the party you've got options," Giggs said.
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OSAKA -- A Turkish man sued the government of Japan on May 29 seeking damages totaling 4.5 million yen, alleging that immigration officials in Osaka broke his right arm while trying to restrain him at a detention facility here.
According to the Osaka District Court lawsuit, the plaintiff, 34, arrived in Japan in January 2015 but was denied entry as he had previously been deported due to an illegal stay. He has since been under detention.
The alleged incident at the Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau detention facility in Osaka's Suminoe Ward occurred in July 2017, when the Turkish man threw a book at an official because he became angry at the official's attitude. This action prompted several officials to pile onto him, breaking his right arm.
Surveillance camera footage showed about eight officials pinning the man on the ground. The image was made public by the lawyers for the plaintiff following its release by the bureau.
One of the lawyers says they want to examine the Osaka bureau's stance toward detainees as officials there have been accused of "illegal restraint" in the past. A bureau official declined to comment, saying the suit had not reached the bureau.


I am a social anthropologist and have researched the impacts of EU agriculture policy on the lives of subsistence farmers in Romania. My follow-up research in Romania brought to the fore environmental questions which eventually led me to permaculture in 2009. It was quite life-changing.
In my research I have always combined activism and social science, and I have been very interested in deliberative paths for desired social change, the interconnections between ecosystems and social systems, and subsistence farming strategies.
In 2010, I moved back to Luxembourg and set up CELL, the Centre for Ecological Learning Luxembourg, a laboratory for transitional and permaculture ethics and practice. The idea was to make Luxembourg a Transition bioregion, and I am working towards that with my CELL team.
At the beginning of 2011, I registered for my Permaculture Diploma, and will do steady, slow work on this in the areas of CELL design, ecorenovation design and land-based designs for myself and other people.