What next for higher education? Here’s an alternate learning model for the future

-The disconnect between higher education and employability is growing, along with the soaring costs of tuition fees and student debt.

-Employers are relying less on college education and many are exploring alternate educational pathways to employment.

-The new educational institutional (NEI) model takes an alternate approach that combines academic and practical experience.

 
Higher education finds itself trapped in a distressing quandary. On the one hand, employers have voiced increasing concerns about the disconnect between education and employability. On the other, the cost of higher education is growing rapidly. In the US, for example, tuition fees have outpaced inflation significantly, and total debt has surpassed $1.75 trillion.

It should come as no surprise that public opinion of higher education in the US has plummeted in recent years and academic institutions find themselves embroiled in an increasingly polarized debate. And for all that, the health of many academic institutions in the US is precarious – indicating that the structural issues are deep-rooted.

The problems are global too: many nations subsidize higher education significantly, and government expenditures are high as 2.5% of GDP, while the employability gap is often even more pronounced than in the US.

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Πηγή: weforum.org