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• The Education System

  “I read them. Not to grade them. No, I read them to see how I am doing. Where am I failing?”

  W. Edwards Deming.

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• Engineering Graduates Earned a Return on Their Investment In Education of 21%

  Engineering graduates earned a return on their investment of 21%. The next highest were math and computers (18%); health (18%); and business (17%). Even the lowest returns are quite good: education (9%), leisure and hospitality (11%), agriculture (11%) and liberal arts (12%).

  These returns look at graduates without post-graduate degrees (in order to find the value of just the undergraduate degree).

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• Education Improvement

  Education is another area where applying management improvement concepts can be difficult. The Education area does require special care but management improvement concepts can work very well in Education.

  David Langford has done some great work in this area. He wrote a book, Orchestrating Learning With Quality, which while I would definitely recommend it for anyone planning on applying these concepts...

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• Financial Education

  The financial decisions we make have huge impacts on the quality of lives. This blog focus largely on management improvement: in such posts we often mention the importance of long term thinking and systems thinking. When planning our personal financial paths long term thinking and systems thinking (to optimize our long term financial well being given the options available in our individual situation) are necessary.

  Related: Curious Cat Investment blog - financial literacy posts

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• Internships Increasing

  The Deming Scholars MBA program at Fordham includes a heavy dose of internships (“Subject matter is delivered in five integrated learning cycles. Five eight-week sessions of classroom lectures, seminars and study are linked by seven-week internships at participating firms”). Sadly the Deming Scholars MBA program has closed.

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• Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute

  I have recently started publicizing the Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute

  Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute is dedicated to furthering the education, professional growth and development of current and future managers and the practice of management in organizations.

  Please let me know if you have comments, questions or suggestions for how to make the Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute useful to those trying to improve the practice of management.

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