TTO - Trường ĐH Hoa Sen vừa gửi công văn đến Thường trực Thành ủy TP.HCM và UBND TP.HCM về việc kiến nghị đối với công văn của UBND TP về tổ chức Đại hội toàn trường ngày 31-1.

Để học cách lãnh đạo doanh nghiệp, các sinh viên MBA phải đọc hàng trăm hồ sơ phân tích vụ việc (case study), trong đó đưa ra vấn đề khúc mắc ở một công ty có thật và thảo luận cách giải quyết vấn đề đó.
Trường Kinh doanh Harvard là đơn vị khởi xướng và phổ biến phương pháp này từ năm 1912. Với họ, phân tích vụ việc vừa là một nghề kiếm tiền vừa là công cụ giảng dạy chủ chốt.
Cơ quan xuất bản của Trường Kinh doanh Harvard (HBP) cho biết họ đã bán những phân tích vụ việc này cho khoảng 4.000 trường khác trên khắp thế giới – chiếm khoảng 80% các phân tích vụ việc từng được sử dụng.
Theo báo cáo thường niên của Trường Kinh doanh Harvard, HBP thu về 194 triệu USD đô vào năm 2014 – tăng 44% so với năm 2010.

Many professors do double duty as television pundits, even though sound bites, which are inherently unsubtle, run counter to what scholarship exalts. And educational institutions choose speakers largely — and sometimes solely — for their star power. The University of Houston spent $155,000 to schedule Matthew McConaughey for its commencement next month.

In what should be a ringing alarm for nonprofit boards across the country long accustomed to minimal scrutiny or accountability, Attorney GeneralEric T. Schneiderman of New York has signaled that the laissez-faire approach to nonprofit governance is over.
Mr. Schneiderman’s office has sent letters to the board members of Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, the prestigious college founded in Manhattan in 1859 by the philanthropist Peter Cooper on the premise that it be “open and free to all.” Last year, after the school said it faced financial ruin otherwise, it began charging tuition.

The closure of 28 career-college campuses on Monday -- most of them in California -- marked the final chapter in the unprecedented collapse of a giant in the field, Corinthian Colleges, which for years has faced widespread allegations of fraud, deception and waste of taxpayer dollars.
And as some 16,000 displaced students at Heald, Everest and WyoTech wonder what to do next, a bigger question looms: What will this mean for the for-profit college sector?
The sector's reputation certainly has been tarnished in recent years as companies like Corinthian have been accused of aggressively recruiting military veterans, the poor and others eager to get on a stable career path -- and then charging them tens of thousands of dollars for degrees with questionable value.

The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs has begun an investigation into four for-profit colleges over concerns about students’ dropout and loan-default rates, and the ways in which students are recruited in the first place.
The department issued subpoenas in February to Berkeley College, Mandl School, New York Career Institute and Technical Career Institutes, also known as TCI College.

HONG KONG — With an $18 billion war chest, he is one of China’s richest investors. Yet on a recent trip to San Francisco, Zhang Lei and his entourage crammed into a three-bedroom house in the Mission District, rented through Airbnb.
Starting 10 years ago with $20 million from Yale University’s endowment, Mr. Zhang was an early backer of companies like Tencent and JD.com, businesses that have shaken up traditional industries across China. Now he thinks these companies could stir things up globally.

One of the key strategies they use to accomplish this is unleashing a flood of money into think-tanks and universities around the country to help disseminate their message. That money comes with strings attached that give corporations more and more influence over education and research at both public and private universities around the country.
Just weeks ago it was revealed that Harvard-Smithsonian's Willie Soon - whose climate change studies the scientific community have long claimed to be inaccurate - received almost all of his funding from fossil fuel interests. Were it not for public disclosure laws, this information would have been hidden from the public, making it much more difficult for those who are not members of the scientific community to discern whether Soon's research was above board or just corporate PR disguised as science.

“These cases against Corinthian have unmasked a school that relentlessly pursued potential students — including veterans, single parents, and first-time higher education seekers — promising jobs and high earnings, and preying on their hopes in an effort to secure federal funds.”

Bill Clinton ended his role with a for-profit college system on Friday, nearly two weeks after his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, began her second presidential campaign and singled out that industry for criticism.
Mr. Clinton’s role as honorary chancellor for the college system, Laureate International Universities, was part of a five-year deal that began on April 24, 2010, an aide with his office said. The end of the agreement was first reported by Bloomberg Politics, and an aide to Mr. Clinton told Bloomberg that the separation had nothing to do with Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.