Universities: Higher education has become driven by capital, making universities education businesses
- Pages: 22
- Published: December 2015
- Report Code: ML00019-066
In order to fund the insatiable desire for research money, universities have had to effectively become businesses, nowhere is this more immediately apparent than in the US. With huge organizations developing and spreading that have the capacity to educate large numbers of “customer” pupils and controlling billions of dollars’ worth of revenue, property, facilities and intellectual assets.
Scope
Learn just where the top universities in the world are located and how they attract their students.
Identify how the US and UK have used their universities as economic tools and not just education centres.
See how student fees powers this new role, put also put huge financial pressure on students.
Reasons to buy
How do universities manage to attract students?How much money are universities amassing and making each year?
What has caused the nature of universities to change?
Who are the top universities globally?
What problems does this focus on money create?
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