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Stephen Downes

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It's hard to be anything but incredulous on reading that headline. Harvard Business School seems to me to be the antithesis of a 'university of the people'. But there it is. "With online education at an all-time high, this relationship expands UoPeople's mission to offer even greater quality, online, accessible, and affordable higher education to qualified students," said University of the People President Shai Reshef. The collaboration is represented as "an important step in Harvard Business School's broader diversity and inclusion initiatives." I see this as marketing - what the collaboration really means is that University of the People students are now able to enroll in Harvard's Credential of Readiness (CORe), a three-course primer in the fundamentals of business ($US 2,250 each exclusive of discounts).

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