Higher Education
Monday morning, I joined the first day of
the inaugural Astia Global Entrepreneur Program’s 2012
Summer Cohort, held on June 25-29, 2012 in New York City. 
A recent
release from the GMAT people showed two interesting trends for Chinese
women – first, they are going to grad schools at a far higher percentage than women
in other countries and at a much younger age, 25; and second that most are
heading to Western universities. For most of the women quoted, they see foreign
universities offering better educational experiences, especially for those
wanting to work in foreign countries. India, Canada, the UK and Singapore are
the top b-school destinations, according to GMAC.
If you
want to be an entrepreneur, do you have to go to college?
In our story titled Stay in or drop out? The entrepreneur’s education fiasco, TNW Editor Brad McCarty states that the average public university (in the US) will set you back nearly $80,000 for a 4-year program. And a private school will cost in excess of $150,000.
“At the end of that time, you have a bellybutton,” he writes. “Oh sure, you might have a piece of paper that says you have a Bachelor of Science or Art degree but what you actually have is something that has become so ubiquitous that it’s really not worth much more than the lint inside your own navel.”
In New York City, two entrepreneurs aim to disrupt the traditional university form with a new education incubation model that’s reminiscent of old school apprenticeships. E[nstitute], which launched last week, features the city’s most notable entrepreneurs who will act as mentors to a class of aspiring young fellows.
It’s common knowledge that Google is one of the most desired employers in
the world. Yet, a startup project made the Brazilian MIT student Isabel Pesce Mattos drop out of both Google and
MIT. And it seems it wasn’t such a bad idea. The startup she joined is called Lemon, and reportedly raised no less than $10 million in
funding thanks to its receipt tracking app (see our review).
It’s not a story about luck or privilege; Isabel Pesce’s trajectory is a shining example of determination against all odds.
Unlike many of her fellow students, Isabel wasn’t raised to join a top American university. She only found out about MIT’s program for foreigners two weeks before the deadline, she remembers, laughing.
The NextWomen is delighted to announce a partnership with Udemy, the exciting new platform whose goal is to disrupt and democratize the world of education by
enabling anyone to teach and learn online.
We are very excited to offer our readers discounted rates on a selection of Udemy’s best and most relevant training courses.
In this week’s discounted course “Raising Capital for Startups” you will learn the following from top founders and investors such as Dave McClure, Founder 500 Startups, the most prolific angel investment firm of 2010:
Are you sitting on a future business idea, and not sure how best to take
it forward? Are you short of either time or the experience and knowledge to do
the initial phase of planning by yourself?
If so, why not submit your idea for inclusion in the Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Design (IE&D) Projects module at Imperial College Business School. Now in its fourth year, this programme accepts good ideas from external inventors and entrepreneurs as well from Imperial’s own students. The call for proposals is open until 11th November.
This is a Guest post by NextWomen Partners at TopMBA.com - Ross Geraghty and Richard Burns.
Have you ever questioned how useful an MBA could be for entrepreneurs? Although the programme has usually been perceived as a good investment for corporate careers, the motivations seem to be changing and various founders are turning to these programmes to accelerate their skills growth, whether it is through a 2 year in sito degree or an online MBA degree.
As women manage money and make money, they need acquire the skills necessary for their own financial success in a male-dominated field.
Step forward: Smart Woman Securities (SWS),an organization focused on investment education for undergraduate women.
It will provide resources upon which women can build greater knowledge of the financial markets through instructive seminars, mentoring initiatives, and meetings with successful investors.
Undergraduate in the US are asked to join a chapter or start one: The organization currently includes chapters at Boston College, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Fordham, Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Princeton, University of Virginia, and Yale.
Kepner-Tregoe, the world leading consulting
and training organisation, is offering student scholarships for a full-time
international MBA programme at CIMBA (Consortium
Institute of Management and Business Administration), Asolo, Italy.The
programme will include semesters at CIMBA in Italy, and at the University of
Iowa, US, and is open to all students resident across Europe in possession of a
bachelor degree
Are female entrepreneurs in the The NextWomen network interested in Cartier Women's Initiative Awards? They should be.. and they can apply now. The deadline this year to apply is March 15, 2011, 10 am CET.
The Cartier Women's Initiative Award is an entrepreneurship competition for start-ups led by women organized by Cartier in partnership with McKinsey and INSEAD business school.
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