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ERIC Number: EJ582102
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-5982
Sylvan Learning Systems Moves Into the Higher-Education Market.
Blumenstyk, Goldie
Chronicle of Higher Education, v45 n27 pA36-A38 Mar 12 1999
Known primarily for its tutoring and testing of grade-school and high-school students, for-profit Sylvan Learning Systems has developed interests in distance education, teacher education, English-language training, and college-level study outside the United States. The company is consciously stepping up its presence in areas associated with higher education, claiming it aims at cooperation, not competition. (MSE)
Descriptors: Competition, Distance Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation, International Education, Proprietary Schools, Remedial Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Standardized Tests, Teacher Education, Testing, Tutorial Programs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Profit Making Schools; Sylvan Learning Systems