Comparing two Open Universities within the Common Wealth:
Athabasca University and the Allama Iqbal Open University at Islamabad
When the Open University of the United Kingdom (OU UK) opened its ‘doors’ in 1969 it was considered a revolution in higher education by many pedagogues. In the forty years that followed 80 similar higher open education institutes were established (Peters, O. 2010, p57-81). The common denominator of this new generation of distance universities is that they are open. During the OU UK inauguration Lord Crowther stated: “We are open ‘as to people’; ‘as to places’; ‘as to methods’; and finally ‘to ideas’” (cf. Tunstall 1974, in Peters, O. 2010, p 62). What this openness entails, depends largely on the social, economic, and political circumstances in the country in which an open university is founded. Two former British colonies and members of the Common Wealth, Canada and Pakistan, were among the
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It was modeled after the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California. It aimed to have a small student population and focused on liberal arts (Byrne 1989). When it was founded, there were 3 more public universities in Alberta. There seemed to be room for a fourth university as the discovery of oil fields had resulted in a significant growth of both economy and population. Against expectations enrollment remained low and the government of Alberta decided to reform the UA into an online university as a pilot project (Byrne 1989). The pilot was started in 1972 and would run up to five years. It would be considered successful if enrolments would substantially increase or if it would attract students that otherwise would not have enrolled themselves in a university (Byrne, 1989). It was so successful that UA outgrew its first campus and was moved from Edmonton to Alberta in 1984
When you graduate high school you have your choice of what kind of an education you want to get. You have your choice of going to a 4-year university, or a 2-year college. In order to decide you will compare the two and use the comparisons to come up with your final decision. Questions to ask yourself would be, what are you looking for in college, how do you want to learn, and how much money do you have to work with. Comparing University and Community college the first thing that comes to mind is the difference in price. Certain Universities are more expensive than others. The difference in price is because of the difference in price and size, also because of the difference in the
Poverty affects millions of people living in the united states, poverty is measured by the amount of money needed to support the basic needs of a house hold. Poverty is measured by the SSA low-cost food budget assuming 1/3 of the budget is spent on food. The people with the highest percentage of poverty is shown to be Hispanic female households with no spouse present. The vast majority of people in poverty are women and children but in recent years the numbers of women considered poor have raised. Percentage rate is the percentage of poor in different counties. Looking at graph that maps Americas diversity shows that the highest poverty rate is in the South the Midwest has the least. I would assume that has to do with the weather, warmer weather
Even though Liberty and Regent University may have similar belief systems in terms of religion, the class and campus sizes are different. Liberty is a much larger university, but the teachers are less personable. According to Liberty University’s central website, Liberty’s campus covers more than 7,000 acres (Liberty Liberty University). I find it important to attend a university that has a large campus enough campus that students can get away and have space to study or to think if needed. The student to professor ratio at Liberty University for residential undergraduates is 24 to 1 (Liberty Liberty University). Considering Liberty is such a large university, this ratio seems to be an appropriate size. This ratio is right around what I am
Both Spain and France wanted the wealth of the new land sending explorers to stake their claim, knowing that other countries were in pursuit of staking claims to the new land as well.
College, a universal, fundamental concept that the globe utilizes. Through a wide array of variations, countries across the world have developed their own meaning of what higher education is. However, the underlying tone of it all is the same, furthering one’s knowledge. With a vast number of schools from a broad range of locations trying to pull the population in, colleges compete with different tactics ranging from education relevance to evaluation. Consequently, problems have arisen from these approaches, addressed along the lines in an article called “A New Course” by Magdalena Kay, an associate professor of English at the University of Victoria and an educational film, “Ivory Tower” by Andrew Rossi, a graduate of Harvard and Yale University and a filmmaker. Furthermore, these problems change the meaning of college itself, no longer seen as an education, but as a commodity.
In this paper I will be discussing the wealth gap. I will also be discussing if there should be a “special” tax to redistribute the wealth. I hope to enlighten the reader of the issue of the wealth gap, and if a tax would help.
Article XVII. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defense. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.
A middle class citizen sits in a courtroom while a wealthy citizen sits in a different courtroom. Same charge, different outcome. The wealth gives the first class citizen a very unfair advantage within the judicial system. First, he can hire lawyers that know how to find any and every loophole in the system to get their client off with little to no charges. Even if the charge is as drastic as manslaughter. This happens everyday all over the country as wealth bails people out of consequences.
There isn't anything more important to community colleges than the certainty that they can and should provide all qualified people who are looking to be accepted with admittance (Vaughan). The people of the community college represent forty-four percent of all undergraduates and forty-nine percent of students attending college for the first time (David). These students include a lot of minority students, students with a low social standing and the non-standard (age twenty-five and older) student who commonly enters college less academically equipped (David). Most community colleges have made immense advancement in reducing a lot of geographical and economic blockades that have in the past limited college admittance (David). Community
At one point in time, humans did not have an official legal government that they lived under, and yet, they always seemed to structure themselves in some form or manner. So it may be assumed that every human society throughout time had or has a primitive or advanced concept of governance. Still, it is uncertain how government impresses society. The two literary works- Candide and The Republic- both explore the concept of a perfect government or "world" and suggest that the happiness of people determines the efficiency of the government. So perhaps government is intended to bring happiness to the multitude.
Throughout the book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith uses the term “commercial society” rather than more accustomed words like “capitalism.” Smith explains what he means by this term,
Every American dreams of finding a job that pays well enough so that they may comfortably take care of their loved ones and themselves for years to come. Most Americans hope to find some way to make a living that they enjoy, something that they view as productive. Unfortunately, many do not have this luxury. In our society, a good portion of the population is forced to hold the base of our country in place while hardly being redeemed for their time and effort, and thus the problem of income inequality. Numbers of these people live from paycheck to paycheck, barely getting by, not because they manage their money poorly, but because the value of their time at work is negligible.
The way money is distributed within the United States is unbalanced, with the majority of the wealthy owning the bulk of the country’s wealth. Wealth can be defined as a person’s assets and monetary gains. This unequal distribution has caused numerous economic and geographical problems, such as how resources are divided among countries, how developed or industrialized a country is in relation to wealth distribution and the wide spread of disease and lack of medical attention due to an absence of money. In this paper I will address the negative and positive aspects associated with wealth distribution. I will explain how resource distribution contributes to an area’s economic growth. I will also discuss varying ways to measure wealth
An open educational setting (and especially one that is looking very directly as competition and cost factors) is ideal for such a transformation if the key stakeholders can be brought together in a way that addresses two elements: the internal barriers of their system and a vision for the future. Previous studies such as the work of MacMillan and Carlisle (2007) have shown this to be true, even though their work, which reviewed an earlier effort of Stacy (1993), was conducted in a pre-technology setting. Or at least it was done in a setting where the elements of the initiative and its emergent experiments in change did not focus on these capabilities to make its impact even more successful. The current effort seeks to provide the University of the Sky with its own directives to accept the best of some of what occurred previously and use that foundation for
This developing liberal trend within the middle class produced conditions that allowed for the exploring of social thinkers such as John Locke, a philosopher of the 17th century, who theorised on politics and liberty and the individual. Then there was the Magna-Carta adding further to the liberal maelstrom of the political debate at this time. There was Adam Smith, who promoted a laissez-fare approach to economics, which was a further expression of liberal thinking. Smith’s book, ‘The wealth of a Nation’ heralded new thoughts about trade and the market. He suggested that the market should be left to regulate itself, reducing governmental control. This gave the enterprise class further opportunity to break with the old restricted practices of