Category: technology
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Employment, education and back to that new Adidas plant
For many years it has been widely accepted that there is a strong causal connection between additional years of formal education and likely future income. Simply put, data from around the world showed that, on average, university graduates could be expected to earn significantly more than those who did not proceed to university. That connection…
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What does a new Adidas plant have to do with the future of higher education?
Reading a story in The Economist last week about a new high tech production plant in Germany got me thinking about possible parallels in the evolution of some parts of higher education. The Adidas story is fascinating in its own right. I hadn’t realized the sports shoe industry is worth $80 billion a year; though I…
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