Sunday, August 15, 2010

The end of colleges as we know it…

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I suppose I’m on a kick right now…mostly for myself.

The objective: never let myself forget that NO corner of the old economy is going to escape unscathed from the relentless onslaught of the networking revolution.

Lawyers were one of them and today, Higher Education.

I’ve been saying for a while that the rising costs of education (college, that is), the questionable ROI on those costs, and the advent of new technologies means that the model is bound to break.

Well, now I’ve got some backup…Bill Gates.

Here’s the story.

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