Issues and challenges to the right to education in the digital age 2016, para. 90
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Massive open online courses and other distance education formats can promote privatization, reduce public funding and increase managerial control over academic staff. "Market-leading" universities could capture the higher education market as a whole, since customers will choose the most prestigious courses in elite universities associated with "star" professors. This phenomenon has been termed "an emerging brand of academic capitalism" that is associated with entrepreneurship, as it seeks to raise significant income from the private sector.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the right to education
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Special Procedures' report
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Economic Rights
Education
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2016
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Other
Reference
SR Education, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/37, para. 90.