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Welcome to the age of crowd-education

By GEORGE GATHIGI

The other day, a full-page advertisement by a local university caught my eye. The advert spoke of the institution as a brand; how the institution “goes the extra mile to build the brand”; that “the brand sells the product” and “the product defines the brand”.

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