Oxford blues: Chinese executives log complaints over training programme

Lan Shili, a former billionaire who founded one of China’s first private airlines, beamed in front of the camera: “With the Oxford gown, the Oxford badge, and this library card – once you’ve got this three-piece set and you’re sitting here, don’t you kind of look like an Oxford person?” “My Oxford life officially begins today,” he declared in a video he shared on the Weibo microblog service in September. Nearly a year on, the executive training programme that took him to the prestigious...