Entrepreneurs Creating Educational Innovation Case Studies From Aust
This book examines the contribution of entrepreneurs in diversifying and redefining the tertiary education landscape in Australia. The book explores how and why entrepreneurs have decided to enter a sector which, traditionally, has bee
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Entrepreneurs Creating Educational Innovation Case Studies From Australia
Entrepreneurs Creating Educational Innovation
Laura Hougaz
Entrepreneurs Creating Educational Innovation Case Studies From Australia
Laura Hougaz Study Connections Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-28653-8 ISBN 978-3-030-28655-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28655-2
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Preface
Entrepreneurs play a critical role in the economy. By identifying opportunities and exploiting them, they fulfil social and economic needs. In Australia, as in many other parts of the world, we are accustomed to private as well as government investment in primary and secondary education. However, little is generally known about venture capitalists and the investments that support the creation of a vigorous independent tertiary education sector and the role that entrepreneurs play in driving change in this sector. In many countries, including Australia, higher education is being transformed, and over recent decades, universities have been gradually facing imminent disruption through new technologies and entrepreneurial activities. A long pedigree and fine stone buildings offer little defence against the restless inventiveness of entrepreneurs, who see opportunities to remake the higher education model conceived in Australia in 1850 (Davis, 2017, p. 93).
With the increasing demand worldwide to access quality education and training at both vocational and higher educational levels, coupled with the enlarged marketbased competition and prioritising of qualifications and pathways, entrepreneurs with a particular interest in education have entered
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