This rise in prestige has been mirrored by a revamp of undergraduate business programs, with the top ones increasingly resembling MBAs thanks to an emphasis onthe rigorous studyof economics, statistics and accounting and MBA-like teaching methods using case studies and team exercises.
The move away from modular exams towards those taken mainly at the end of two years ofstudy would ensure there was better focus onteaching and learning and greater depth ofstudy, Mr Gove said.
Washington, a freed slave who walked 500 miles from the mines of West Virginia to study at Hampton, who argued that these colleges should focus onteaching blacks skilled trades and vocations.