Colleges in Crisis! Which of the following will make it ?

Which of the below Online universities you think will make successfully out of this bad time ?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_17/b3830011.htm

 

All of the above.

The article you cite has nothing to do with the schools you list, nor their genre. For all we know, these kinds of schools, either for-profit or not-for-profit, are taking market share, not losing it.

It is precisely because such schools are aligning themselves with business and industry, because they're offering relevant curricula, because they're run like businesses instead of charities, and because they compete that they'll likely prevail.

Oh, and you omitted the big dog, Apollo, and a littler dog, Argosy.

NB: The poll will only allow the participant to select one, but your question asks for multiple answers.

 

Business Week article

"The U.S. became the first nation to embrace mass higher education"

Is this statement defensible? What about countries like the UK and Germany, that had free tuition? What about the Soviet Union?

 

Re: Business Week article

I read somewhere that Canadians have more degrees per capita than Americans. I have no idea if this is true but it is certainly close.

 

I think you are referring to a recent OECD study that found Canada to have the highest percentage of degree holders per capita among OECD countries.

Apparently 41 percent of the working-age population hold a degree in Canada, with the U.S. a somewhat distant second at 37 percent

 

How can Touro not make it? It gets free advertising 24 hours per day on this forum.

 

Definitely not the UK. Though the UK is now heading down the same slope (following their lead dog, the USA).

 

And the last percentage that I've seen for where I live is 13% have bachelor's degrees. I'm guessing that the more educated areas in the U.S. make up for us.



Tom Nixon

 

I agree that the UK is a relatively late entrant into mass higher education. England only had two universities until the early 19'th century. Probably half the universities in that country have been created in the last generation.

But I wouldn't call it a downward slope. If it were, then the first substandard thing to be eliminated would be distance learning, wouldn't it? What could possibly exemplify the extension of educational opportunity better than that?

 

I think the latest Canadian census (2001) shows that about 20 % of the people between the ages of 15 and dead have degrees. Take out the people under 22 and over 60 and the number gets bigger. I think the 41 % seems a bit high.

In the rural county in which I live 8 % of the people have degrees. I assume they are mostly teachers.

 

http://globeandmail.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrack/20030312/UEDUCN?section=Education

According to figures from this article, 41 percent of working-age adults in Canada have a degree or diploma.

University-educated populations - much lower. Ontario comes in as top province with 25 percent of adults between 25-60 holding a university degree.

 

My wording was poor. My point was that higher ed participation rates in U.K. have historically been low, and that many have looked to U.S. participation rates for inspiration. Though this trend is not universally welcomed.

Coincidentally, there's a relevant article in the Guardian today: New universities still suffer Mickey-taking.

 

And an article in The Independent also relevant to expanding access to higher ed in the UK: Can a college be a university?