Comes a report on Mondragon University, in the Basque...
Nor is the cooperative university model a solution to all education’s ills. It’s private and charges tuition (a little more than $7,000 a year),Hey, those are exactly the figures I show in the biz plan for Seattle Teacher's College!
What is being done now is to collapse education into vocational training, teaching into a fee-for-service form of employment, and research only as a profit generator. The faculty are being put on term contracts and administration is now a career with big salaries and great distance from the places where value is actually being produced. The overall result is the consolidation of a two class system: elite education for economic and political elites and vocational education for the masses.So when will this take off? Who knows....
The idea of eliminating superfluous administration seems similar to what G. Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and his colleagues have done in the field of medicine.
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