The higher-education industry faces a stark choice: either adapt to a rapidly changing world or face a future of cheeseparing.
ACE, a higher-education industry group, has a network of about 2, 000 schools that consider granting credit for nonclassroom programs, such as military or corporate training, based on its recommendations.
Expensive, bureaucratic, and slow-moving, higher education is an industry ripe for technological disruption.
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And that is the close and increasingly close collaboration between public higher education and indeed much of private higher education in the United States and private industry.
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The Army says it also wants to "reinforce its position as a modern career alternative to industry or higher education".
Once this credentials problem goes away I think it will be higher education which is the next industry to be entirely over turned by modern technology.
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Like Roosevelt, and many European leaders, Wilson had also believed that imperialism was contributing to a higher, more pacific civilization by bringing not only capitalist industry but also higher standards of morality and education to what had been barbarous regions.
The Business-Higher Education Forum, comprised of leaders from industry and academia, recently launched a program of industry-university partnerships to improve undergraduate STEM education.
Yet despite this agreement nobody seems to be clamoring to get the government to stop holding back one industry that could easily increase exports: higher education.
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Additionally, Stephen Laster, McGraw-Hill Education's chief digital officer, will participate in the HigherEdTECH Summit at CES, a conference designed to bring together industry leaders to discuss how technology can positively impact higher education.
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For governments and universities in countries with weak higher education systems and severe shortages of quality faculty, the coming decade of industry restructuring in the U.S. and a small number of other advanced countries represents an unprecedented opportunity.
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The Council, which will be administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will be comprised of no more than 12 individuals from a variety of sectors outside the Federal Government, including, among others, institutions of higher education, non-profit and philanthropic organizations, civil society, and private industry.
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Higher education in the United States is coming to resemble any other kind of personal service industry.
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Higher education institutions now face pressures similar to those that reshaped other inefficient industries, like the car industry or the airline.
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