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UK: The profit motive is threatening higher education

An architecture is opening up that threatens the public funding, regulation and governance of higher education.

The profitability of higher education partnerships for companies like Pearson Education highlights how educational technology is developed as a way in, both to the extraction of value from universities, and to the recalibration of the purpose of universities to catalyse such extraction further. (...) - University World News,

Richard Hall, 18 November 2012, Issue No:248

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Top Bulgarian Science Officials Sacked

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The Bulgarian science and education minister, Sergei Ignatov, was fired yesterday in response to a government report on corruption in hiring and grant-making procedures. The head of the Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF), Hristo Petrov, stepped down as well on Monday in response to the scandal. The departures are "a very good sign," says Emil Horozov, a mathematician at Sofia University and former head of BNSF, who led hundreds of scientists in protests against corruption in December.  (...) - ScienceInsider, by Gretchen Vogel, With reporting by Kai Kupferschmidt on 29 January 2013

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