Governments cutting hundreds of millions of euros in pandemic funding, just a few years after a pandemic. Billions spent on compensation after a flood, rather than on prevention beforehand.

Students are showing up to college with weaker skills. Colleges need them to succeed. Professors are stuck in the middle.

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