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Universities in the age of meritocracy 2.0
Traditional measures of merit have served their purpose. Enabling everyone to flourish – even as artificial intelligence threatens to outshine us all – requires that we diversify those yardsticks while also being clear that they should not define a person’s worth.
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It’s admissions season for universities and, as usual, we are seeking to admit the best students into our programmes.
But what does “best” mean? A century ago, it would have had more to do with breeding and gender than brains. In recent decades, the focus shifted to measurable qualities like IQ and standardised tests, such as A levels and the International Baccalaureate.
