The school hopes the free sponsorship will create revenue through the sale of promotional items. Chicago's higher education community has merger fever. Late last year, DePaul University swallowed Barat College of Lake Forest, in an attempt to expand its suburban presence. China outsources teacher training to New Zealand. Today, the two countries seal a deal to send up to 120 Chinese teachers to four New Zealand universities for month-long seminars in school management and administration.
Students shop for schools, apply, and take courses on the Web.
The service promises to reduce transaction costs by aggregating its clients' transactions and leveraging their collective buying power. Not Internet service. We said, we don't pay for your phone line at home, you pay for cable TV on your own, and this is not something we're going to subsidize. Now there is a different wind blowing. Thanks to recent legal reforms, academics in Japan can now set up commercial enterprises without stepping down from their university posts.