I love how this article presumes it will be a company that creates an alternative to university credentials, and not (say) a government, a cooperative or a community. Presumably that's because the idea here is centered around a product: "This new product would be a registry, a kind of credit bureau, land registry, and LinkedIn all at once. The registry confirms you learned something and registers it. The world can check the registry when it needs to know what the student can do. An examination will surely be involved but the registry, not the examination, is the asset." But why would it be a (centralized) registry? One of the strengths of the university system is that it is decentralized - you can't simply replace it in one go, and it doesn't fail with the collapse of a single institution.
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