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http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/16/stiappapp01003.html

Commercial rivals threaten our universities
Ray Wild

BRITAIN'S universities face a growing problem: the attractiveness of education as a business investment. Investors are extremely keen to get into this global business. Only about 2% of it is currently the property of the private sector. In America it is a $260 billion (£177 billion) market, and increasing. Barriers to entry are falling as campus-based education is complemented, if not replaced, by remote technology. The existing leading providers, the universities, are not sophisticated businesses....

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