Reinventing the University

The uniqueness of universities has long been recognised in the design of their ownership, governance and regulation. But the world is changing. When the great physicist Niels Bohr heard in 1938 that splitting a uranium atom could yield a tremendous burst of energy, he slapped his head and said, Oh, what idiots we have all been! It’s time that traditional universities had the same reaction. Thankfully DU is not waiting for them.