Private universities are no threat to academic standards
July 28, 2010
The Guardian – Geoffrey Alderman
“At all these privately funded academies the bottom line is very clear: no students, no salaries. These institutions exist only because they offer services for which students – including British students – are willing to pay: typically small group teaching; state-of-the-art learning resources; career-focused programmes of study; enviable records of placing students in employment once they graduate. They offer all this while maintaining high academic standards – if they did not, their reputations with employers would quickly collapse.”(more)
