http://www.ed.co.nz/2010/02/12/news-122-karen-midwives-and-a-fluoro-vest/ Tertiary education news and views Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:02:11 +1300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.ed.co.nz/2010/02/12/news-122-karen-midwives-and-a-fluoro-vest/comment-page-1/#comment-45 John MacCormick Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:41:37 +0000 http://www.ed.co.nz/?p=166#comment-45 I'm delighted to see the MIT tertiary high school taking off - Stuart has done a great job planning this. I was particularly impressed with MIT's efforts to find a system to select suitable students, keep the schools engaged and wrap some decent evaluation around it. The challenge is to find a funding and regulatory model that can enable this kind of thing to go to scale if it works, without unit costs well above those for secondary schooling. Could be hard to keep the contributing schools engaged without a fair amount of double funding for students. I’m delighted to see the MIT tertiary high school taking off – Stuart has done a great job planning this. I was particularly impressed with MIT’s efforts to find a system to select suitable students, keep the schools engaged and wrap some decent evaluation around it.
The challenge is to find a funding and regulatory model that can enable this kind of thing to go to scale if it works, without unit costs well above those for secondary schooling. Could be hard to keep the contributing schools engaged without a fair amount of double funding for students.

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