| GB. WHY MY ALMA MATER OXFORD WILL STRUGGLE |
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Oxford University, my alma mater, is a classic case of a complacent establishment that is refusing to reinvent itself. It will consequently find life much harder in the 21st century. Britain's finest educational naine has shunned the entire academy school movement, ignores the explosion in online learning and fails dismally to exploit its intellectual property commercially. It has been captured by insiders, too many of whom teach degree courses for the old world. It lives off past glories, and is doomed to fade unless it reforms vigorously. Start-ups, be they companies, charities or social enterprises, are cheaper and quicker to launch than ever before. I'm involved with fresh initiatives in banking, education, baking and pubs among others often it is simpler than trying to transform the old oligopolies. Many of the latter are finding it hard to cope with a Jack of trust and the end of deference. They will no doubt disappear or be merged, as the public desert them. |
