‘As a leader among academic leaders, Glyn Davis convincingly argues that more of the same is hardly the best survival strategy in a world of rampant technological change.

I spent eight years as a university chancellor but it was only when I read Glyn Davis’s book that I finally understood the sector as a whole.

Just as monoculture puts ecosystems at risk, so too with universities. Diversity in the university sector will afford protection against impending technological disruption. Glyn Davis provides a compelling rationale for a progressive way forward.

Instead of convergence to sameness driven by ministerial control of fees, a liberated university system would encourage a rich variety of institutions from small to large, specialist to generalist.’

Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist