Is international education an answer to geopolitical tensions?
In The News Piece in The Pie News
Oct. 21, 2022
The report Varying Degrees 2022 by Rachel Fishman, Sophie Nguyen, and Louisa Woodhouse was cited in an article by The Pie News about international learning as a response to the changing relationship between Gen Z students and higher education.
According to Varying Degrees 2022: New America’s Sixth Annual Survey on Higher Education, an increasing majority of Americans now say that the quality of online education is the same as or better than in-person education.
This mainstream acceptance of online education, along with the driving factors associated with industry 4.0, global demographic shifts, rising inflation, and fast-moving geopolitical and social crises are having a profound impact on higher education, forcing many institutions to consider new directions and different strategies.
If light of the evidence that suggests the relationship students have with higher education is changing, particularly with regard to the efficacy of higher education to prepare students for next generation careers and to succeed in the global job market, the call to higher education is now pretty undeniable.
Effective higher education today requires that institutions reframe traditional teacher-centred pedagogies and adopt new modalities that provide this generation of students with in-demand skills that employers want along with the soft skills and intercultural competencies employees need to be successful and engaged in the world.
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