Mr Mankiw says he has often wondered about the efficient scale of a university, but to me the key question is to what extent does the university benefit from the agglomeration externalities to which it also contributes Cambridge and nearby Boston are home to some 50 institutions of higher education.
Thus, the wide-scale digitization of university teaching and learning raises a number of different 'commercialisations' of higher education that need to be better acknowledged.
Too little young talent is coming through the system to provide for the large-scale replacement of university lecturers and researchers who will be retiring within the next 10 years.
When students and workers at UC Riverside publicly demanded the scaling back of university privatization in a number of sectors, they were met with batons and paintball pellets. .
But she roundly condemns a gamut of other policies, including the cancellation of Labour's school building programme, the spending cuts, the scaling back of university-based teacher training in favour of practical experience in the classroom via teaching schools, the English baccalaureate (or EBac), which recognises only narrowly academic subjects, and the tripling of tuition fees.
Current research examines the need for design and validation of a unifactorial scale to measure attitudes of university teachers with regard to ICT.
One of the challenges on consolidation has been a commercial model for making it work however there is a lot the public sector could do on consolidation given the scale of deliveries to universities, schools, hospitals, council buildings and so on".
They lack the scale of large state universities and state systems in the public sector.
One administrator from each of the universities was interviewed about the scale of cheating in their university, and issues that would be raised by an increased use of e-assessment.
As an illustrative example, among various studies conducted to define the TLU domain for designing the TOEFL iBT® test was a large-scale job analysis survey of university students and faculty members conducted by Rosenfeld, Leung, and Oltman (2001).
