The future of education or just hype? The rise of Minerva, the world's most selective university
by Bryony Clarke from Technology | The Guardian on (#56AMW)
A Silicon Valley startup could offer a template for universities shifting their courses online due to coronavirus
No one could accuse CEO and businessman Ben Nelson of lacking ambition. I wanted to create a university that serves as a model for other institutions, by being indisputably the best university in the world," he says, bouncing up and down on a video call from his San Francisco office. Unless you demonstrate that you are the absolute best, that you can provide an education that Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford cannot come close to, no one will listen. And we are doing exactly that."
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