S2 Ep1: Season 2, Ep 1: Delivering Deliverology at Cuckoo U

Season 2 of My Imaginary University kicks off with a thoroughly novel creation from Professor Mark Peace, the newly appointed Academic Director of the King's Experience at King's College London. Mark presents Cuckoo University, an incredibly lean organisation with no buildings and very few staff, which is dedicated to enabling students to make the most of the Lifelong Loan Entitlement, assuming full implementation. (For those with questions about where we are with the LLE under a new government they are advised to have a look at this recent article on Wonkhe.)

The university operates in different places at different times, provides intense learning experiences for students - mainly in newly built hotels - and essentially is the lubricant enabling meaningful learning journeys for a broad learner population.

Cuckoo U offers just one degree, focusing on the unifying discipline of Deliverology, and also uses its convening power to bring institutions together to support wider societal challenges.

The university's graduates are exceptionally successful and as VC Mark has a strong pedagogical rather than managerial focus. He is though banning both acronyms and a number of fonts and powerpoint templates. Although doubts remain about the university's name it does have a very heroic theme tune.