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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and KINSALE, Ireland, Nov. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The O'Sullivan Foundation today announced a grant of $5 million to the Khan Academy to accelerate the development and deployment of the non-profit's revolutionary approach to education, which has already been adopted by forward-thinking public and private schools throughout California and the United States. Khan Academy, which began as one man's effort to tutor his young cousin in math over the Internet via YouTube, has rapidly grown into a mass movement which is used by millions of students monthly, in a range of subjects from math and science to the humanities.

This site may be helpful for MBA students that need focused remedial training in math etc.

"IN LATE 1965, President Lyndon Johnson stood in the modest gymnasium of what had once been the tiny teaching college he attended in Texas and announced a programme to promote education. It was an initiative that exemplified the "Great Society" agenda of his administration: social advancement financed by a little hard cash, lots of leverage and potentially vast implicit government commitments. Those commitments are now coming due."

MBA programs and MBA students are likely to be affected when the bubble burst.

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"The other day, on a flight from Charleston to Atlanta, I was in the middle of grading papers when the man sitting next to me leaned over and mumbled, "Those aren't final student papers, are they?" He asked the question because the pages had comments and emendations and line edits all over them once I finished each one. I laughed and replied, "Yeah, but they're good students. They're bright, but they just don't take enough care with their prose.""

Would an MBA student write a cover letter like the one discussed in this article?

"I have been teaching college writing since 1992. The corrections I find myself making on student assignments fall into two general categories. The first concern problems of style - specifically, clarity and grace. So I mark the many places where my students commit wordiness, vagueness, awkwardness, banality, and so on. The other category is mistakes: usages that do not follow the accepted rules of standard English. From the beginning, it was clear to me that most student mistakes fall into a small number of categories - seven, to be precise. They have common qualities that speak to unfortunate cultural trends, which I'll discuss in a minute. But first, the seven deadly sins. (The examples in quotation marks are from actual student writing assignments.)"

"The Web site RateMyProfessors evokes skepticism among faculty members. Some view the anonymous evaluation site as a haven for rants and odd remarks ("He will crush you like an academic ninja!"), or a place where students go to grade instructors based on easiness or attractiveness (a chili-pepper icon distinguishes professors that are "hot" over those that are "not"). But new research out of the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire suggests the popular service is a more useful barometer of instructor quality than you might think, at least in the aggregate. And the study, the latest of several indicating RateMyProfessors should not be dismissed, raises questions about how universities should deal with a site whose ratings have been factored into Forbes magazine's college rankings and apparently even into some universities' personnel evaluations."

"Attending a top-tier business school is-you guessed it-an expensive proposition. Take Harvard Business School: The M.B.A. class of 2013 student budget hovers around $84,000 for tuition, living expenses, travel, and other ancillary costs. Once you tack on the opportunity cost of two years of forgone salary, it's easy to see why, as Poets & Quants points out, six-figure debt is commonplace for most graduating M.B.A.'s."

"Last May there were reports of exploding watermelons in China. Apparently, farmers applied fertilizer that made the melons grow really big really fast and then KAPOW! They exploded. It is with a fair amount of distress that I am observing a similar phenomenon at my own institution. No, we aren't growing fruit on campus, but we do seem to be growing some mighty big egos, and I fear the splatter of gray matter as a few heads begin to explode."

When reading this article, think about MBA students, and in particular EMBA students.