Higher education as a business: Lessons from the corporate world

Minerva

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 115-135

  Ryan, Yoni ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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EID: 26244432082     PISSN: 00264695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010334721507     Document Type: Article

References (29)

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3. Quoted in Robert Lenzer and Stephen Johnson, ‘Seeing Things as They Really Are’, Forbes, 10 March 1997, 122-128, 127.
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14. Personal communication in interview. All direct quotations, unless otherwise acknowledged, are taken from the interviews which formed the data base for The Business of Borderless Education.
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22. See http://www.virtualuniversities.net for a full exploration of the case, and http://www.greenwich.edu/for the company’s homepage. An examination of some of the subjects offered is instructive.
23. http://fmtbf405/highed/mceetyacop.htm.
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