Covering the business of education and training

Kaplan International is planning to take on the traditional universities of the U.K. much like it is doing in the U.S.

The UK wants 50 per cent of its young people in university and the government wants them to pay more for it.

Terence Kealey, vice chancellor of Buckingham University, the country’s only independent higher education institution, said private companies believed “Europe is absolutely ripe for invasion”.

Kaplan is on the march.  

Elite universites are not worrying but 'middling universities' offering vocational courses are.

Kaplan is not burdened by research the way traditional universities are.

One educator said “It will make planning and providing a national higher education system considerably harder.”

Why is that, I wonder?

Why should it be any harder or easier to provide a quality education whethere there is someone there doing it for the money or not?

What do you think?