Distance learning faces a hard lesson in economics

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  1. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

    Distance learning faces a hard lesson in economics
    By Miranda Green
    Published: September 12 2005 03:00 | Last updated: September 12 2005 03:00

    The Open University will be seriously damaged by the tuition fee regime and may not be able to maintain its pre-eminent position in e-learning, the vice-chancellor has warned.

    http://news.ft.com/cms/s/21fe58cc-232a-11da-86cc-00000e2511c8.html

    Now one may select a better name recognition school for the same tuition.

    Will they loose students to other schools?
    What is in the future for them?

    learner
     
    Lerner, Sep 13, 2005
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  2. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Interesting. They should follow the lead of Leicester et al. and "open" themselves up to students from outside the EU. There was a time I'd have considered the Open University if they'd been willing to sully themselves with non-European students.

    -=Steve=-
     
    SteveFoerster, Sep 13, 2005
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  3. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Clearly, if their tuition hike would price themselves out of the market, they should keep tuiition where it was in the first place and seek new markets, like maybe the US.
     
    Ted Heiks, Sep 13, 2005
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  4. chydenius

    chydenius New Member

    GBP 3,000 per year? That's almost reason to wish that one were English.
     
    chydenius, Sep 16, 2005
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  5. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Or they could actually reduce their prices in hopes that more people could afford them.
     
    Ted Heiks, Sep 18, 2005
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