...Company Overview: The company provides online and on-campus post-secondary education geared primarily towards working adults. Its flagship institution, University of Phoenix, has an alumni network of 700,000 people. Founded in 1973 by John Sperling, it has grown to become the world’s largest private education provider. It offers undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in numerous fields. In 2007, it formed a joint venture with the Carlyle Group to expand its market internationally. The goal was to utilize e-learning to educate the masses in the developing world, where the number of post-secondary institutions is not able to meet demand. The current CEO of the company is Gregory W. Cappelli. Dr. Sperling still serves on the Board as Executive Chairman. Current Issues: 1. Public perception about proprietary education providers and, more specifically, online learning. Due to the inconsistent quality of education provided by different proprietary schools, the overall image and reputation of the industry is not that great. These for-profit institutions are often viewed as diploma mills. Here are some comments I’ve personally heard about them: “They’ll graduate anyone that can afford to pay the tuition” and “the quality of education that you receive is inferior to a traditional university”. Similarly for online programs, regardless of whether they’re from a profit or non-profit institution, many people don’t feel that they provide the same interaction as a brick and mortar...
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...Questionnaire Analysis of an Online Nursing Student Zackary S. Stringer, RN Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion November 17th, 2013 A VARK Questionnaire Analysis of an Online Nursing Student When entering the realm of online education, one must step back and ask themselves if they are truly able to step away from traditional brick-and-mortar school systems and succeed in an online learning community. One way to assess whether or not this is a possibility is through the VARK questionnaire. The VARK questionnaire was developed by Fleming and Mills in 1992 in an attempt to help students better understand the modalities in which they learn best. The questionnaire is a series of questions that present real life situations relating to learning new skills or teaching new skills to others. The four answer choices then apply to one of the four VARK modalities: visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic. Those taking the VARK questionnaire are also given the opportunity to select more than one response if they feel that more than one answer applies to them. After submitting the responses, the scores for the four modalities are revealed, and then a dominant modality is given. As well, someone could be considered multimodal if they scored highly in more than one modality (Sinclaire, 2012). In the exercise that will be discussed, a twenty year old online nursing student who attended a nursing diploma school currently enrolled in a nursing diploma to bachelor’s...
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...trhů pro uvedení produktu na trh. Postup práce: V teoretické části se bude autorka věnovat problematice výzkumu trhu a jeho jednotlivým metodám a technikám relevantním pro tento typ výzkumu. V praktické části bude analyzovat zvolený trh, popř. zvolené trhy, formuluje doporučení pro tvorbu daného produktu a provede ekonomické vyhodnocení jeho zavedení. Použité metody: Analýza sekundárních dat, dedukce, deskripce, komparace, relevantní matematicko-statistické metody. Rozsah grafických prací: Rozsah práce bez příloh: předpoklad cca 15 tabulek a grafů 60 – 70 stran Seznam odborné literatury: BOLDIŠ, P. Bibliografické citace dokumentu podle ČSN ISO 690 a ČSN ISO 690-2 (01 0197): Část 1 – Citace: metodika a obecná pravidla. Verze 3.2 [online]. 1999–2002. Poslední aktualizace 2002-09-03. Dostupné na World Wide Web: HENDL, J. Kvalitativní výzkum – základní metody a aplikace. 1. vyd. Praha : Portál, 2005. 408 s. ISBN 80-7667-040-2. HENDL, J. Přehled statistických metod zpracování dat – Analýza a meta analýza dat. 1. vyd. Praha : Portál, 2004. 584 s. ISBN 80-7178-820-1. KOTLER, P. Marketing management. 10. rozšířené vyd. Praha : Grada, 2001. 719 s. ISBN 80-247-0016-6. TOMEK, G. – VÁVROVÁ, V. Výrobek a jeho úspěch na trhu. 1. vyd. Praha : Grada, 2001. 352 s. ISBN 80-247-0053-0. Vedoucí diplomové...
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...Why I chose WGU for my degree? WGU employs a competency-based model where a student may earn college credits based on their knowledge, work experience and skills. In order to speed up your preparation for each course, you would typically take a pre-assessment test of a specified domain of competency, based on the result of which your mentor would work with you to create a study strategy to prepare you for your final test. This way you would save precious time by not having to study through the entire course but just focus on areas of weakness. For subjects like Project Management and Quantitative analysis, which I felt I was well versed with, given my current job experience and math skills, I decided to directly take the pre-assessments for each course. After doing really well at these 2 pre-assessments, I did a quick review of the material and completed and passed these 2 exams totaling 9 credits in under a month. Based on your competency levels, you could achieve higher number of credits in a given 6-month term. You can also have qualifying credits for professional certifications transferred at WGU thus reducing courses to complete, and hence the time to graduate. WGU’s tuition payment cycle is based on a “6-month term” where you pay flat fee per term. Within a term, you are allowed to take any number of courses that you can realistically accomplish in that time frame. This means depending your abilities and time for study, you can complete additional courses and attain your...
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...IV Situation Analysis Industry Analysis An industry analysis is a component of the business plan that provides statistics about the market potential of your business, product and services. The analysis contains specific information about the current state of the industry and target market. According to the book, “Essentials of Marketing 6th ed.”, an industry analysis should also include a report of the trends, competitors, customer profile and technology within the industry. Industry Overview The US colleges and universities industry includes about 4,300 degree-granting institutions with combined annual revenue of approximately $400 billion. Sixty percent of industry revenue is generated by state-operated public schools, 40 percent by private schools. Some 1,700 schools are public, another 1,600 are private nonprofit institutions, and about 1,000 are for-profit private schools. Close to 75 percent of students are enrolled in public schools. Mainly because of big state universities, the industry is concentrated: 50 percent of all students are enrolled in the 400 largest schools. Among the fastest-growing UTPA is ranked in the top ten. Industry Forecast US personal consumption expenditures for higher education, a major driver for university and college revenues, are forecast to grow at an annual compounded rate of 2 percent between 2009 and 2014. Data Published: October 2009. Industry Indicators The bank prime loan rate, an indicator of colleges' and universities'...
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...Influence of National Culture and Other Forces on Management Control Practices of Bangladesh. Abstract This study attempts to examine the influence of national culture and other forces on management control practices of Bangladesh by applying Schneider and Barsoux 2003 culture/ control profiles and some other alternative theories. A triangulation of research methods are followed for this purpose. Evidence from telephone interviews, researcher’s personal experience and other empirical works are used to validate the ingredients of Schneider and Barsoux control profiles for Asian region and different alternative theories on management control practices of Bangladesh. Empirical works from other scholars also suggest that several forces like institutional pressure, ecopolitical conditions and history etc. are more influential than culture in directing the course of management control practices in Bangladesh. The major limitation of this study is its usage of limited data sets. The findings will be useful in understanding different forces that are shaping management control practices in a transitional economy, Bangladesh. 1 1.0 Introduction Previous researches (Hofstede 1991; Schneider and Barsoux, 2003) confirm that management control is practiced differently in different parts of the world and the development of national management practices is a function of its environmental factors. Although it is hoped that globalization, technological development and improved methods...
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...educational institutions, and the various obstacles the company has been through to claim the spot that it currently holds, in the business, and education arenas. It should be noted that much of Apollo Group, Inc. [University of Phoenix] success, lies on the fact that they were the first institution that pioneered online education. They have paved the way that other institutions mimic when attempting to venture in this type of setting. As a result they have capitalized on this and have used the lessons learned to leverage their brand into other areas, such as online high school education, and international markets. However, as Apollo Group, Inc. innovates, and their profits grow, the other educational institutions have been cautious about the true value of the quality associated with their degrees; the federal government has been attentive on Apollo Group, Inc.’s practices associated in recruiting students. Due to these complications Apollo Group, Inc. has had to examine its ethics policy, in order to mitigate these threats, and consequently a: Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis, was conducted. With regards to the SWOT analysis, it is recommended that Apollo Group, Inc. should focus on eliminating its threats first or at the very least mitigate them. Since Apollo Group, Inc. is at the top of the for-profit education market, they are being watched by many institutions for various reasons. The government is watching them for unethical practices...
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...Introduction to the industry Metals have accompanied mankind since ancient ages, and steel, if we begin to follow it from the moment of its historically famed damascene form - for some millennia. From the era of craftsman-like small-scale production to today's form of industrial mass production, steel has covered an intricate path lined with significant innovations in production processes, development of range and quality of products, and perpetually growing productivity of labour, improving economies and ecological load. In addition, a radical change in relationship to the customers is occuring at the end of this century, namely by a pronounced shift of readiness towards the needs and requirements of these customers. Steel's indisputable significance is confirmed by the fact that it has become the second most mass-produced commodity after cement production, attaining the world-wide production volume of approx. 750 mil tons yearly. The art of iron production from ore arose in connection with the practices of copper and lead technologies in Anatolya, in northern Syria and possibly also in part of Iran. Iron ores were added as fluxes for treatment of sulphide copper ores. Iron drops, which the local manufacturers identified already 3000 years BC, comparing these with meteoritic iron, already hinted at the existence of the possibility of producing iron, but this only occurred practically 15 centuries later. Since that time, it is necessary to reckon that only small amounts of this...
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...COMMON PROSPECTUS Master’s Degree Bachelor’s Degree Diplomas Certificates Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068, INDIA | www.ignou.ac.in Price: Rs. 100/- by cash at the counter | Rs. 150/- by Registered Post Electronic version of the prospectus is available for download at: http://www.ignou.ac.in Online Admission & Payment Gateway RECOGNITION IGNOU is a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY established by an Act of Parliament in 1985 (Act No. 50 of 1985). IGNOU Degrees/Diplomas/Certificates are recognised by all the member institutions of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and are at par with Degrees/Diplomas/Certificates of all Indian Universities/Deemed Universities/Institutions. Prepared & vetted at: Student Registration Division © Indira Gandhi National Open University March 2012 Print Production Mr B. Natarajan, DR(P) Mr Arvind Kumar, AR(P) Mr Ajit Kumar, So(P) IGNOU Offers “Round the Year Admission” to its Programmes under the ‘Walk-in-Admission’ Scheme. Candidates can obtain admission application forms from Regional Centre, Student Registration Divisions (SRD), IGNOU Headquarters and also can download the Prospectus and application form from the university website at ww.ignou.ac.in. Candidates can submit the same only at the Regional Centres concerned either by post or in person. Application forms can be submitted online and programme fee can be paid online through the internet payment gateway. CUT OFF DATES FOR WALK-IN-ADMISSION: Please...
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...per cent of all industrial employment in the country. The sector contributes 10 per cent of the country’s GDP, 40 per cent of industrial value addition, and 78 per cent of export earnings. Major readymade garments exported by Bangladesh are knitted and woven shirts and blouses, trousers, skirts, shorts, jackets, sweaters and sportswear, and other fashion apparel. In the Table below provides a profile of Bangladesh’s textile and clothing sector. The sector can broadly be divided into primary textile sector (PTS) and export-oriented readymade garment (RMG) making sector. The PTS comprises spinning, weaving, and specialized textile units, traditional handloom sector and knitting and dyeing subsectors. Currently, there are now 350 spinning mills, 400 weaving firms, 310 dyeing and finishing units, and 4,500 garment factories. |Sub-sector |Number of units |Installed machine capacity |Production capacity |Employment | | | | | | | |Textile spinning |350 7.5 million |spindles |1,800 million |400,000 | | | |(0.2 million rotors) |kg | | |Textile weaving ...
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...Management in Education http://mie.sagepub.com/ Reconfiguring the higher education value chain Virendra Pathak and Kavita Pathak Management in Education 2010 24: 166 DOI: 10.1177/0892020610376791 The online version of this article can be found at: http://mie.sagepub.com/content/24/4/166 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society Additional services and information for Management in Education can be found at: Email Alerts: http://mie.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://mie.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://mie.sagepub.com/content/24/4/166.refs.html >> Version of Record - Oct 6, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from mie.sagepub.com at Excelsior College on March 19, 2014 MiE Reconfiguring the higher education value chain Management in Education 24(4) 166–171 ª 2010 British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society (BELMAS) Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0892020610376791 mie.sagepub.com Virendra Pathak Kavita Pathak Abstract Forces of demand and supply are changing the dynamics of the higher education market. Transformation of institutions of higher learning into competitive enterprise is underway. Higher education institutions are seemingly under intense ...
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...Retail trade is one of the traditional businesses of Bangladesh. Its expansion is keeping pace with population growth and changes in consumption patterns, which are consistent with the growth of the economy. This expansion has not been structurally organized, because, until recently, retailing had never been perceived as an industry, but rather as an individual or family business entity with a very limited scope of organized expansion. Little to no market information is available on the retail sector, but secondary sources indicate that the size of the food retail sector in Bangladesh could be US$12-14 billion, and the number of retail grocery shops could be around 1 million. Retail is one of the biggest sources of employment (12 percent), and it contributed 13 percent (wholesale and retail trading) to Bangladesh’s GDP. Organized retail is booming and creating huge opportunity for enterprises. Retailers though sell other companies products work out their own marketing strategies fixing their own target market towards providing customer satisfaction separately. Retail stores irrespective of product line and relative prices emerge in all shape and sizes, such as Specialty stores, Department stores, Supermarkets, Superstore, Convenience stores, Discount stores and off- price stores. Current Market Scenario of Super Market: Superstores are set to boom in the country as the current market players are planning to open several hundred more outlets in the next few years...
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...UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES CENTRAL PLACEMENT SERVICE (KUCCPS) PROCEDURE FOR ONLINE APPLICATION FOR PLACEMENT TO UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES 2013 KCSE EXAMINATION CANDIDATES 1 INTRODUCTION The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (Placement Service) was established as a Body Corporate under Section 55 of the Universities Act No. 42 of 2012 with its functions being to, among others co-ordinate the Placement of Government Sponsored Students to Universities and Colleges. A placement Policy and procedure for placement was subsequently developed and approved by the Board of the Placement Service. Based on the total declared capacity for programmes under Government sponsorship, and the performance analysis of the 2013 K.C.S.E Examination results, the Placement Service has set the cut off point for admission to bachelors degree programme at B of 60 points for male candidates and B- of 58 points for female candidates. In addition, all Candidates with a minimum overall grade of C- are eligible to apply for diploma programmes. The Placement Service therefore wishes to inform the 2013 K.C.S.E Examination Candidates that the online application system will open for application on Monday, May 19, 2014 at 0000 hrs and will close on Saturday, May 31, 2014 at midnight. Applicants who meet the cutoff point set by the Placement Service for admission to bachelors degree programmes may in addition apply for diploma programmes of their choice, while those below the bachelors degree cut...
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...STUDY ON BUILDER MARKET & HOME LOAN PROCESS REVIEW Summer Internship Project Report Submitted towards Partial Fulfilment Of Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Approved by AICTE, Govt. of India) Academic Session 2011 – 2013 CERIFICATE This is to certify that Abhinav Prakash, student of PGDM (Full time) 2011-2013 batch, IMS GHAZIABAD, has exceuted his project in finance under my supervision and guidance . During the project execution he was found to be very sincere and attentive to small details, which were discussed with him. I wish him good luck and success in his future studies and endeavor. PREFACE The PGDM program is well structured and integrated course of business studies .The main objective of practical training at PGDM level is to develop skill in student by supplement to the theoretical study of business management in general. Industrial exposure helps to gain real life knowledge about the industrial environment and business practices. The PGDM provides student with a fundamental knowledge of business and organizational functions and activities, as well as an exposure to strategic thinking of management. In every professional course, training is an important factor. Professors give us theoretical knowledge of various subjects in the college but we are practically exposed of such subjects...
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...1.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Executive summary: While studying the HR procedures it was conspicuous that the recruitment and selection procedures are of greater importance for any organization. As GlaxosmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is an esteemed organization in Nashik the response to recruitment advertisement was huge. During my training period I was a part of recruitment and selection procedure. My primary task was to screen the resumes of the applicants and thus to select the candidates for the interview sessions. The selection procedures included written tests and interviews. After every stage the selected candidates are moved to the next level while the rejected candidates are again called for the feedback. The objective with which the study was conducted are as follows, To understand: 1. The functioning of Recruitment and Selection. 2. To have exposure to recruitment process 3. Whether the recruitment process and selection process are satisfactory or not. The major findings about the recruitment and selection procedures are as follows, * The overall satisfaction level is high. * Job profile communication, evaluation of experience is the factors where Glaxosmithkline is scoring well. * The recruitment is mainly done through print media. * The selection procedures are having three phases. * The executives want the procedure to be future oriented. Following were the suggestions given for the improvement in the procedures. ...
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