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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

Higher Ed Connects: News

After it spent more than $850-million over the past two years to buy companies that offer professional education and run coding boot camps in conjunction with colleges, 2U investors could hardly have been shocked over the company’s moves to diversify from a reliance on contracts with universities for master’s degrees.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

And for some scholars, there are academic benefits to living and working in a locality or culture where one’s research is centered. Research priorities may need to shift. But in an international setting, other factors come to bear on a scholar’s ability to sustain a research agenda. Import of laboratory equipment is costly.