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Stephen Downes

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Bryan Alexander refers to an article in IHE describing a report by the start-up advising company Edmit predicting the (short) future of a number of U.S.-based colleges. The report was never published. On the one hand "we do have to wonder if such a report could have done harm to colleges already teetering on the financial brink." But on the other hand "students should have access to such information, given the important decisions they make about attendance." Asks Alexander, "is it unethical to block access to such reports from students deciding where to enroll?

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