Vote HExit?

The day has come for UK Higher Education Business Schools to consider remaining in a "controlling, sinister, largely unrepresentative bureaucracy" (A.N.Academic, 2016) albeit with the benefits of collegiality, fellow feeling, cheap beer at the Students' Union and "friendly relations" with "foreign" Schools on the same campus or to break free and vote HExit.

But what would HExit look like for Business Schools?

1. Business Schools could have a points based system for student admissions: 100 points for "can you pay the fee?", a further 50 for speaking enough English to get a certificate of proficiency from the London / Cambridge / Brighton School of Speak Good English.

2. Business Schools could stop paying the bureaucrats £millions each year of OUR earnings in order to prop up deficit Schools such as Greek Studies.  The "rebate" in terms of pensions, facilities, branding, cross fertilization of ideas could be sourced more economically from consultants and out-sourcing specialists - that's what Business Schools teach after all.

3. Business Schools could be in charge of their own destiny, not held back by the compromise and risk aversion of a distant Presidency.  Business Schools could be "Great" (not "Great again" as they have never earned that epithet).  For example, Business Schools could set their own standards for degrees and higher awards and their own progression rules and dispense with the burden of regulation, quality assurance, capped fees...What a USP that would be as attention focuses on the educational needs of BRI and not so much C countries' children of wealthy families.

4. Remaining in a cosy corporate system where University Presidents schmooze with industry leaders simply entrenches the idea that Business Schools exist for the social good, preparing young people for global careers in corporations and governments and that employment and employability are the key. This direction is dangerous and leads to the abyss.  Business Schools should focus all resources on research published in high ranking but little read journals. After all didn't Business School research forecast the 2007 credit crunch as far back as 2012?

VOTE HEXIT AND MAKE 23 JUNE OUR INTERDEPENDENCE DAY