Merryn Somerset Webb

Could and should it be fixed?

Yes.

Everything can be fixed.

This is great.

Again, brings us back to political will and finding the political space to do all these things.

If you were going back to university now, as not a retiree, obviously, as an older person, what would you study?

Well, you know what?

I am at the moment, as you know...

I am intrigued about how we make lifelong learning a reality.

So something in that sort of education meets entrepreneurship space.

I'm not sure what the degree course would be.

Maybe it doesn't exist.

There are degrees in entrepreneurship.

There are degrees in business.

There are degrees in...

education, but how we get learning and earning to coexist on a lifelong basis, I think is among the challenges of our time.

I don't know if there exists a degree for doing that right now.

Maybe we should create one.

A few years ago, a friend of mine up in Manchester created a course in creativity because, of course, contrary to popular belief, you can teach creativity.

We know quite a lot about the creative process and what is needed