So says George Kyriakou, 25, a Greece native and graduate student at the Polytechnic Institute at NYU. Kyriakou and his roommates, fellow NYU-Poly students Nicolas Vansnick of Belgium and Kaif Memon of India, joined the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge with a technological idea to improve education.

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Expensive, bureaucratic, and slow-moving, higher education is an industry ripe for technological disruption.

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As many governments struggle to address societal needs through sustainable economic development, technological advancement is a critical ingredient for access to elevating basic and higher education.

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They identified education as a profession where labor productivity was not amenable to improvement through technological advance.

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Organized in partnership with ISESCO, the Moroccan Ministry of Education, the engineering School of Mines Albi-Carmaux and the French Technological University of Compiegne, the workshop will be conducted in a form of action-training, and the participants will work on their own pedagogical materials with the objective to transpose them to the editorial chain.

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In their 2008 book, The Race Between Education and Technology, Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Laurence Katz argue that technological advancement was a major spur to educational attainment for the U.S., at least until the 1970s, and that this symbiotic relationship laid the grounds for almost a century of American prosperity and relative economic equality.

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And for years the slow pace of technological change meant that the supply of new journalists, provided through a broad journalism or general humanities education, would slot into the marketplace with little increase or decrease in overall income.

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Generic liberal arts education is scarcely affordable within four years, and no longer prepares graduates for a competitive and technological marketplace.

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