Mon.Jul 11, 2022

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Colleges Are Outsourcing Their Teaching Mission to For-Profit Companies. Is That A Good Thing? (Richard Fossey*)

Higher Education Inquirer

[This article is part of the Transparency-Accountability-Value series.] Years ago, colleges employed people to perform auxiliary services. University employees staffed the campus bookstore, ran the student union, and performed janitorial services. Over time, however, universities began outsourcing almost all of their auxiliary services. Barnes & Noble now runs hundreds of college bookstores.

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Memo to Universities UK: don’t let this crisis go to waste

SRHE

by Rob Cuthbert. C arpe diem, quam minimum credula postero [1]. Our text is from Boris and Horace. Boris Johnson had Churchillian aspirations, and it was Churchill who supposedly first said in the 1940s: “never let a good crisis go to waste”, in the context of the formation of the United Nations. And it was Horace much longer ago who urged us to seize the day, and put little faith in the future.