Good point.

Universities are more like newspapers than people care to admit. They're actually bundles of services which people believe belong together 'naturally' by dint of habit.

Whether we advocate for their closure or not, they're doomed in their present form.

I'd love to see a country offer its young people a choice between higher education and start-up funding. Given a few tens of thousands of dollars and three years (and a little assistance) I'm pretty sure most people could come up with a magnificent failure, at the very least.

As for apprenticeships, I'm going to kill my training business in 2010 and to offer apprentice-support through KM/social L & D programmes. Does anybody else do this?