More Regulatory Agility: What Education Needs Now

Two different clocks are ticking in education today: whilst artificial intelligence is spreading explosively through business and everyday life, curricula are still being developed on cycles that span several years. A gap that is becoming increasingly hard to ignore.

For Jörg Aebischer, founder and owner of eduxept AG, the problem lies not in regulation itself, but in what it prescribes. Rather than insisting on a fixed number of teaching hours, the crucial question should be: what competencies does a learner have at the end? Much like a driving licence – what matters is not how long someone has sat behind the wheel, but whether they can drive safely.

His proposal for reform draws on the fintech model used by FINMA: new approaches should be tested in controlled pilot projects and, if successful, made available to all. That is how educational innovation could emerge – not in spite of the system, but through it.