The British government-aligned think-tank Demos launched a new pamphlet on the 23rd, The Edgeless University : why higher education must embrace technology (PDF link). ‘Edgeless’ here means the Mandelsonian policy idea that UK higher-education must cross borders, speak many languages and generally become less insular — willing to set up partnership campuses in Europe and beyond, “exploring new ways of accrediting learning”. Technology is touted as the way to press on toward that goal, it seems. All very well (unless it’s the dreaded Moodle), but where’s the money to do so, at a time when huge cuts to libraries and to “investment in the management and curatorship of vast amounts of data and knowledge” seem to be looming into view?