He calls it the "Brazilian effect": … when public higher education cannot keep pace with growing public demand for access and programs, governments often allow [for-profits] to rush in and help fill the gap, becoming a much larger and sometimes dominant provider.
It's becoming an increasingly popular gap year or sabbatical option and some of this is at least partly down to the rise in blogging and social media.
"Through spay, neuter, transfer and adoption programs, we think New York City can close the gap toward becoming a 'no-kill community' by 2015," said Matthew Bershadker, the president and chief executive of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, one of 150 rescue groups and shelters that make up the Mayor's Alliance for N.Y.C.'s Animals.
Patrick first had the idea of becoming a private investigator during his gap year.
This socio-economic gap is becoming a chasm, and we need to intervene dramatically to close it.
You can only assume that all the money the BBC paid him during his 30 years of service enough to buy an 850-acre lodge in Devon has driven a wedge between him and reality, a gap that is fast becoming a chasm.
There's Reg, a paranoid loner who tends his illegal garden up near Smuggler's Gap and dreams of becoming a Nascar driver.
Whether in education, consulting, medicine, construction or finance, the 100X gap between median performance (and even 2X to 20X gap from "pretty good" performance) is becoming a New Normal.
Despite this, glaring capacity gaps exist, preventing China from becoming a true global leader.
Schimberg: "They are concerned about the widening market share gap in North America because globally Pepsi's becoming a virtual company".
