Archive for July 2nd, 2013

Thunderbird on the rocks?

July 2, 2013

Not the cheap wine … we’re talking higher education.

An article in the Economist caught my eye: “The higher-education business – Honours without profits?”

The thrust of the article was that  not-for-profit schools are starting to hook-up with for-profit schools … ostensibly to frame a more sustainable business model …  merging the intellectual capacity of universities with the content delivery efficiency of the for-profits.

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Interesting, but that’s not what caught my eye … here’s what did.

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