StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 145 Academics&Professionals is an education consultancy which uses peer-review teams to carry out accreditation, consulting and benchmarking projects at university departments which have not had access to such services previously. Business schools (management departments), engineering schools and medical schools are already part of well-developed international (voluntary) accreditation systems and are not a target for the company. The primary target customers are departments in other fields that do not have such processes or systems in place, including: Natural Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Geology) Life Sciences (Agriculture, Biotechnology) Social Sciences (Sociology, Political Science, Media) Arts & Humanities (Languages, History, Philosophy) Technology (Computer Science) SERVICES OFFERING Academics&Professionals uses mixed teams of academics (professors, lecturers, researchers) and business practitioners related to the discipline to carry ...

StartupRealities No 49 AppliedInPractice is a higher education institution with a unique pedagogy centred on the use of applied (real life) homework and projects. Students are not allowed to work on any assignment that does not have a direct practical application in real life: in business, government or industry. CEO QUOTE "Live projects have been around for quite some time but universities and business schools tend to mix such projects with other hypothetical assignments. AppliedInPractice stays away from such mixing: we have abolished hypothetism altogether. Any work done by our students is on practical projects, real-life consulting for existing companies or business plans for real startups. Our professors are not allowed to give students homework; it has to be #AppliedWork. Similarly, our MBA programme is called #AppliedMBA," said company founder and CEO Al Prats. "No one likes waste, yet schools and universities waste years of the life of their students on hy...