While there’s currently no clear path to disrupting higher education, there are many pain points that those in the education field and beyond should be confronting. First, there is still a significant mismatch between the jobs people want and those that are actually available. What’s more, a substantial proportion of future jobs will be hard to predict, except for the fact that they will require a very different range of skills than those displayed by most graduates. Students are paying more and more to get less and less, with student debt reaching all-time highs. Many elite universities are prioritising research at the expense of teaching. And many universities are reinforcing inequality as they accept students from higher socio-economic backgrounds at a higher rate. Much about the current model of higher education needs to change. The reality in today’s digital-first world is that we need to teach every generation how to learn, unlearn, and relearn — quickly — so they can transform the future of work, rather than be transformed by it. Read the full article .
20 November 2019 10:22:12 IST
6 reasons why higher education needs to be disrupted
Employers need skills, not just knowledge or titles; students want jobs, not knowledge or titles