The rise and benefit of the education “rock star” has become a hot topic in edutech. On TechCrunch, Nancy Conrad discussed her foundation’s exciting Innovation Summit. The summit awards 27 high school teams an all-expenses-paid trip to pitch their startup dream to a supportive audience of entrepreneurs. Conrad’s rationale for the summit: Celebrate the top achievers [...]
Access to education is a major problem for most governments. How big is this problem? According to Sir John Daniel (1996), “More than one-third of the world’s population is under 20. By 2006, 100 million qualified to enter a university will have no place to go. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs [...]