Coursera is one of many new large-scale online education organizations aiming to provide universal access to the world's most exclusive universities (otherwise known as Massive Open Online courses, MOOC).
Supporters of the 11-plus point to higher numbers achieving top GCSE and A-level grades in Northern Ireland than in mainland Britain, less socially exclusive universities and an almost complete absence of private schools.
Through such high-profile platforms, including Coursera, EdX, and Udacity, free courses have become available from a range of exclusive universities, which is altering the way people are undertaking learning (Jordan 2014).
Unlike NIHR BRCs, NIHR BRUs, NIHR CLAHRCs, and AHSCs, which were exclusive partnerships between a single university and its principal NHS affiliates designed to further strengthen centres of excellence in research, HIECs were inclusive partnerships between NHS providers and commissioners, higher education institutions, local government, charities, and industry.
One consequence of the squeeze on funding for public universities, created by Americans' reluctance to pay taxes, has been an academic brain drain to the more socially exclusive private universities.
What's perhaps most familiar is New Haven's inherent contradiction: a poor, gritty, diverse urban center built up around one of the most homogenous, exclusive, wealthy universities in the world.
Harald Pittel, a literature student at Aachen University of Technology in Germany, and a leader of the FZS umbrella student union, said that German students had been jolted by recent proposals that Germany create exclusive "elite universities" with special admissions requirements.
In reality, he is a central part of a remarkably well-oiled machine in which the top officials of nearly every ministry went to the same exclusive French universities (his was the prestigious École Nationale d'Administration) and are all on cozy terms that facilitate easy dialogue.
Its client list includes SAP Concur, Gusto, Silicon Valley Bank, Pepperdine University, Exclusive Resorts, Cura HR and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.
