Jay Golden, director of the National Center of Excellence for SMART Innovations and an assistant professor at ASU’s School of Sustainability, led a team of four ASU undergraduates to compete in the “Better Living Business Plan Challenge†sponsored by Wal-Mart April 18.
The sustainability competition, which took place at the company’s home office in Bentonville, Ark., [...]
The deadline to decide which university to attend—Business Plans and therefore which undergraduate business program—is quickly approaching. It’s the biggest decision of your life so far, and you’re feeling the pressure. You want to choose the right college, and your parents want to know where they’ll be handing over their life savings.
Rather than flip a [...]
I’m most like a ’seeker’,” says Fiona Fung, 21, from Brunei, in her final year of a BA in media and performance at Salford University. “But I’ve got friends who are ‘gekkos’.” “I’m a ‘bono’,” says Cecilia Ostlund, 23, from Sweden, in her last year of a BA in languages and management at Lancaster University.What [...]
Now that my university pal Laurence has been covering my classes in the prison and even has a couple of his own, we have a lot of new friends in common: armed robbers, drug-dealers, grievous bodily harmers, murderers. Our favourite people are armed robbers. It’s not that the rest lack charm, it’s just that the [...]
We have grown used to schools labelled as “failing”, and even closed and reopened under new names and “fresh-start” management. So could it, or should it, ever happen to universities? Many of the arguments for intervention in schools apply equally to higher education. Undergraduates, like school pupils, usually get only one chance at their courses. [...]
British universities don’t really take Europe seriously. From vice-chancellors downwards, academics spend a lot of time looking longingly across the Atlantic at Harvard’s endowment or Stanford’s research budget, and worrying about whether the UK is losing out to the US in the market for international students.Continental universities don’t excite the slightest interest or fear of [...]
TV’s wannabe postgraduatesEach Friday, contestants in the Challenge house sit around nervously with cameras rolling, waiting to find out who’s up for eviction. There isn’t a Davina McCall in sight. And these contestants aren’t hankering after mere column inches and cash - they’re after a place at a UK university.The reality TV show is currently [...]
