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Privacy, Analytics and Marketing Higher Education

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Using Data to Improve Higher Education

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Marketing of higher education may be an appropriate response by an institution to the induced competitiveness of globalization’s commoditization, but it is hard to justify in terms of demand. Higher education certainly does seem to be a provision for which there is unlimited demand, when offered at the right price and to the right people.

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Gibbs, P. (2014). Privacy, Analytics and Marketing Higher Education. In: Menon, M.E., Terkla, D.G., Gibbs, P. (eds) Using Data to Improve Higher Education. Global Perspectives On Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-794-0_13

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