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Re:If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Park... by benj111 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @06:53PM (#21076477)
Are students customers or product?
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Re:If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Park... by pkaye on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @06:58PM (#21076512)
The students pay so they are the customers. The product is the degree.
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Re:If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Park... by benj111 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:21PM (#21076655)
I feel you could make an equal case for the government/lenders being the customer.

I think you're probably right about students not being the product, they're more of a raw material?

I'm being slightly cheeky, but I don't think the relationship is best viewed as the student being the customer, certainly not if the degree is the product.

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Re:If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Park... by novok on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:27PM (#21076684)
You could say the real customers are corporations, that students pay as a supplier.
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Re:If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Park... by statusquoantefa on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:18PM (#21077853)
in most cases these days, the degree doesn't pay, so you're right, it must be the product.
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