I went to 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister’s official residence, for the first time last night, to a party to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a wonderful British institution, the Open University, which offers tertiary education to all-comers.
Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson saw it as his crowning achievement. The current Prime Minister Gordon Brown was a lecturer in Comparative Politics and Government there before turning to the practical, grimier side of politics, and gave an impressive off-the-cuff speech about the OU’s virtues past and present. Apparently its online educational tools are now being used extensively in...