A report issued this week by the global corporate consultancy firm EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young, provides a naked picture of the financial aristocracys exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate the pro-business restructuring of tertiary education.
The report, entitled The Peak of Higher Education, issues a blunt threat. It demands the end of universities as they currently exist, to be replaced by corporate vocational and research services, tailored to the dictates of the corporate elite. It declares in capital letters:
HIGHER EDUCATION IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE KNOWLEDGE SERVICES SECTOR! THE FUTURE IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK. CHANGE MUST START NOWOR NEVER.
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