The OECD's education report shows a bleak picture of funding and policy surrounding post-secondary education. Some highlights:

• Job/skill centric education fails workers later in life as the seek new employment in a shifting environment.
• Short-term, skills-centric education still pushed but even that policy is muddled in implementation as universities are poor training centres.
• Total spending has not kept pace with growth never mind needs.
• The International student based revenue gamble is failing as students start to avoid OECD countries.
• Employment chances are still highly correlated to education levels, but states continue to under-fund access to PSE.

Andy Sernatinger reviews the recent history of the refounded DSA, the strategic and organizational questions which defined the last few years, and the emerging political question in the COVID moment.

"Negotiations to end the long civil war were agreed as part of a withdrawal deal signed by the US ... Talks will formally start 19 years and one day after the 9/11 attacks on America. The Afghan conflict that began in their aftermath was just the latest iteration of a long civil war that has engulfed the country since 1979."