Higher Education, as we now practice it, was built to suit the industrial revolution need of a worker trained early and trained for life.

Education Past required a formal recognised qualification that acculturated the student, taught them how to think, talk and act like that profession and turned them out job ready to undertake a 40 year career in the same industry with a maximum of 2 employers.

Education Today job tenure is 2.7 years on average, we are increasingly working where and when is appropriate, using a multitude of skills directly learnt and many that have been picked up along the way, across industries, employers and a variety of physical and online workspaces.

Education Future: well that’s the great question and in today’s on-air chat with Hong Kong 3’s Phil Whelan we talk about the future of education and explore:

Will we need higher education in the future?

Are qualifications still useful?

The rise of nano credentialing

Lifelong learning coaches

Why STEM is not the answer to future education

Why educators have to understand the attention economy

Listen now (15 minutes 16 seconds)