September 2012 2
Chris Whittle – third time lucky?
Education can be an unforgiving lover, as education entrepreneur Christopher Whittle knows only too well. His latest venture ‘Avenues – The World School’ a nascent chain of for-profit international private schools – comes after bruising encounters with his first education start-up, the sponsored media business Channel 1 News (sold in 1994) and his more high-profile […]
Elite universities schooled?
Chris Whittle’s new venture Avenues – The World School may be an object business lesson for the elite university sector. Yale recently invested $600m to expand its undergraduate intake by 15% or by around 800 students. At $750k per student this is rather expensive even when you take into account they had to build two […]
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