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Originally Posted by Ab
Apple-UCLA (or Microsoft-University of Washington or Amazon-Harvard or Google-Stanford or Facebook-Oxford or whatever) will meet its government obligations and will aim to be the best computer-assisted tertiary education in the history of the world. [...] Every person in the world willing to pay for a tertiary education will be its target market.
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Are the differences between governmental regulations from one country to another in education so trivial to comply with that such a hypothetical provider will easily be able to comply with
all of them though?
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Originally Posted by Ab
Schools will compete for the best teaching talent like sports teams fight over the best athletes.
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Given the paragraph prior to the one containing this, I wonder what the word 'school' will even mean, anymore. What will it take for a school to continue to exist in this scenario?
Do you think it would be possible / desirable for governments to legislate in such a way that educational instutions are solely state-run? For a long time now, I've thought that a well educated citizenry is a necessary ingredient for a properly functioning system of governance. Do you think a corporate run education system would make an honest attempt to ensure citizens would by and large be informed well enough to participate in governance processes? Also, if education for profit turns out to be the model going forward, then what of the right to education?