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Higher
education providers are finding it increasingly difficult to meet
business and student needs through traditional means
Low-cost
educational inaccessibility leads to educational incapability
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worldwide, increased demand for higher education, combined with
a bottleneck in the capacity to supply knowledge, impedes economic
prosperity
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Traditional
university campuses, public or private, can't make education
available to as many people as need it. They
don't have the money. And, many don't have the entrepreneurial
spirit needed to create innovative solutions to education
delivery problems worldwide. Those solutions should be created
immediately. Here are some statistics to ponder:
- There
are between five million and seven million part-time higher
education students in the United States alone.
- From
1978 to 1993, the number of U.S. 25-to-64-year-olds attending
school rose 45%.
- One
year's tuition at an elite private university or college
in the United States costs about $23,000. The cost is going
up $17,000 in the next few months.
- According
to the American Society of Training and Development, 65%
of all jobs available in the U. S. and most developed countries
in the year 2000 will require some training or education
beyond high school, compared with 1995's 54%.
- By
the end of the 20th century, UNESCO, the United Nation's
Educational, Scientific, an Cultural Organization, predicted
there would be as many as 1 billion illiterate people in
the world.
- More
than 100 million students across the globe drop out of school
prematurely.
Beyond
the statistics lies the disturbing trend that most of the
world's knowledge is the preserve of the most highly developed
countries. Disseminating that knowledge worldwide is imperative
to attain a more peaceful world; where business and industry
can find the work force needed to create economic prosperity;
and where individuals can have the opportunity to participate
in that prosperity.
In
addition, there is a worldwide teacher shortage. UNESCO estimates
there may be more than 50 million teachers needed worldwide
by 2000. Payment for their services represents 50% to 80%
of current public education expenditures in almost all countries.
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