Since 1992 this equipment manufacturer has provided courses for people who have made at least 200 sky dives and have shown proficiency in BASE-oriented canopy control skills.
America's three largest providers of online education—edX, a non-profit service run by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITT); Coursera, a for-profit service set up with academics from Stanford University; and Udacity, another for-profit with Stanford roots—have provided courses for an estimated 12m students so far.
In 2009, there were over 700 accredited provider organisations with a gross annual income of over US$2 billion providing courses for over 10 million participants [ 9].
Kuepa, based in Buenos Aires, already provides courses for schools across middle-income Latin America.
This is why, through our employer-led Campus CMIprogramme, we're working in 115 schools to provide courses for pupils in team leading and first-line management.
Kamal Hanif, headteacher at Waverley school in Birmingham, which has close to a 100% Muslim population, provides courses for the Association of School and College Leaders on implementing Prevent.
The university plans to provide courses for about 5,000 students in Laos, a country of more than six million where only 13 percent of the undergraduate-age population is enrolled in higher education, according to 2008 Unesco statistics.
The main challenge, of course, remains integration - this is why Germany is now providing courses for refugees to help them integrate into society, learn the German language, and find employment.
Last year, only the City University of New York provided course work for the first class of New York fellows.
2. The "official" route--graduate-level teaching colleges around the world provide courses and degrees for teacher educators (the official title for what I do).
KAPLAN INC., Chicago, a unit of the Washington Post Co. that provides courses and training for professionals and students, said it would buy Bisys Education Services, New York, a unit of the Bisys Group that provides licensing, certification and development courses.
