Unlike cakes, apprenticeships couldn’t be easier to identify: You’re not an apprentice unless and until you’re hired as an employee by an actual employer.
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Unless colleges are willing to hire leaders with non-academic backgrounds, most would be better off ditching their presidents for lower cost readily available replacements.
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Irrational exuberance around master’s degrees is heading for a Soviet-style crash.
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As the value of a typical college degree is increasingly cryptic, crypto could prove to be the last straw.
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Why haven’t colleges and universities kept up with the dramatic changes to the way we work and live? One big reason is that not enough presidents, provosts, and deans have science/tech backgrounds.
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Universities are no longer ashamed of online education. They’re ashamed of the students who enroll. But Covid marks the end of the era of plausible deniability.
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Taking a few bits and bytes from machine learning could go a long way to improving K-12 and postsecondary learning.
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The many education and training offerings U.S. employers are now making available to their employees are a lot of courses, but a long way from a whole meal.
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Like Jeremy Strong, our current process of accreditation is tightly wound but clueless.
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Just as you can’t take a tax deduction for donating a building to your country club for the benefit of a few hundred already fortunate members, you shouldn’t get one for donating a building to benefit a few thousand already fortunate students.
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