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During a rare stretch of warm, sunny weather in our waterlogged Vancouver region, I look for every excuse to be...

I’ve been thinking and writing about failure lately, but it seems as though this is the week to argue about where success comes from.

I am getting so tired of all this MOOC frenzy, and so I apologize in advance for penning yet another article on the topic. But I'm starting two new Coursera classes tonight and I'm already grumpy about the whole process.

I did not see this coming. Amazon.com is offering to pay up to $2,000 per year towards educational costs for its warehouse employees if they pursue Associate’s degrees in certain high-demand fields, including fields like aircraft mechanics that have no obvious value within the company.

The OECD reports that four out of ten university graduates in the world will come from China or India by 2020 — and a major part of global enrolment is taking place in these two countries. This trend is an inevitable and entirely natural result of the global expansion of higher education — massification, population trends, and the growth of the economies of both countries.

Does it even make sense to think about Brazil and India together, China and Russia? Jim O'Neill has been dining out (or traveling about) on his BRIC concept for years - and has even extended this framework to the "Next Eleven" (Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Turkey, and Vietnam).

When I think of summer, I think of reading. Not of assigned "summer reading," though I'm sure I did my share of that, but of long, lazy days spent moving from one spot to another, nose in book, immersed.

Universities, like other high profile service organizations, continuously seek visibility and preeminence to validate their claims of significance and advertise...