In Finland, world renowned for its successful public school system, I talked to leading school improvement consultant and teacher, Mikko Salonen (of ENIRDELM, the European education network) about his work to help struggling schools turnaround and become more successful.
In the House chamber, docents were again leading school tours.
Many major colleges joined in quickly – world-leading schools from Stanford to Sydney to Scotland to Stockholm are somewhere in the process of divesting, and often their calls have been loud and powerful.
In 1982 Professor Bass left Purdue, one of the worlds leading management schools, for the challenge in his beloved home state of Texas of helping to build the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD School of Managementt into a world-class research institution.
A school struggling to stay afloat will have problems preparing their pupils with the knowledge and skills necessary to operate in the world, leading to a disadvantage in university admissions as well as in the workforce.
His only hope to save the project, and preserve what is perhaps the world's leading school of amber craftsmanship, was to look to the private sector.
What might surprise returning visitors are the exhibited commercial automotive renderings as well as, a live car design studio, occupied by actual automotive students from Art Center College of Design, the worlds leading automotive design school.
The London Business School is considered one of the world's leading business schools and in 2010 its MBA programme was ranked best in the world by the Financial Times.
THEY are changing the guard at some of the world's leading business schools.
Lamda is one of the world's leading drama schools because our students are the best, not because they or their parents have deep pockets.
Most had gone to the world's leading art schools and could have found huge acclaim for their talents had they chosen a different path".
