This wide-ranging essay aims to provoke creative dialogue and challenge complacency in our traditional higher education institutions.
This wide-ranging essay aims to provoke creative dialogue and challenge complacency in our traditional higher education institutions.
Just as globalisation and technology have transformed other huge sectors of the economy in the past 20 years, in the next 20 years universities face transformation. With a massive diversification in the range of providers, methods and technologies delivering tertiary education worldwide, the assumptions underlying the traditional relationship between universities, students and local and national economies are increasingly under great pressure – a revolution is coming.
This argument about unbundling needs to be studied and acted on by university leaders around the world.
Lawrence Summers
President Emeritus, Harvard University
