As we survey the wreckage of many university futures amid the sector's downward spiral, this seems good. Covers the key role played by off-the-shelf 'advice' packages sold by management consultants to unis, mostly to their ruin:
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March 18, 2026 - 16:56 UTC

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It has almost always seemed to me that consultants get brought in to justify decisions rather than help to make them. Maybe this is why unis don't draw on the people they have in-house teaching these subjects
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The one time that I've seen a consultant output was when my team was accidentally looped in to a big 4 report on our ed tech ecosystem which was the most bizarre bunch of meaningless gibberish I had ever seen. I recognised a couple of terms favoured by a senior leader in no sensible context.
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I do wonder if AI is going to make these kinds of situations ever more likely.

Sometimes you need to do the hard work of understanding a problem.
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