Thoughts from the CEO
201122Jun
Private running of University Campuses
- Time: Jun 22nd, 2011 at 08:51
In the Guardian today they talk about BPP, a Not for Profits Company, which offers undergraduate and postgraduate business and law degrees at 14 UK study centres, said it was in talks about managing the business side of the universities'... More
Andre Andrei I agree with @steven.taylor on this one, and you can also see this in the future of industry - I remember watching a documentary about a huge modern building which was completely empty as all its employees were either working from home or remotely 1000 miles away. This documentary from PBS also addresses the issues of schools in the age of information: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/main.html
Aug 09th, 2011 at 14:19
Steven Taylor Interesting -at Birmingham yesterday one lecture said that the role of traditional 'mega campus' (like Birmingham) will change in line with technology and cloud computing to much smaller 'academic discipline pods/centres'. To be hones as I walked around, it was an intense waste of energy having the whole entire place open with not a sole there -struck me as being impractical and an immense waste of resources...
Jun 22nd, 2011 at 09:15