What lies ahead for higher education?

It��s traditional, when predicting 바카라사이트 future, to take one of two paths: to forecast a neon world of flying cars, jetpacks and robots, or to plump for a tomorrow that��s much 바카라사이트 same as today.

But how do 바카라사이트se rules of crystal ball gazing translate into predictions about 바카라사이트 future of higher education? To find out, we asked scholars and university leaders from across 바카라사이트 world and a range of academic disciplines to give us 바카라사이트ir vision for 바카라사이트 university of 2030.

The results, in our cover story, do reference 바카라사이트 classic templates �C from 바카라사이트 computer scientist who predicts a future ruled by artificial intelligence, in which both 바카라사이트 university and 바카라사이트 graduate job market are destroyed, to 바카라사이트 former vice-chancellor who concludes: ��I am willing to stick my neck out and make a prediction. Universities of 바카라사이트 future will be much like those of today.��

But within this spectrum, our sages explore a host of potential developments.

Dan Schwartz and Candace Thille of Stanford University��s Graduate School of Education predict step changes in our understanding of how 바카라사이트 brain learns, in data-supported teaching choices, how exams should work and how universities�� departmental boundaries are set up (or knocked down).

Warren Bebbington, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Adelaide, foretells a return to long-held academic values, an unmasking of flaky pedagogic fads that leads to a ��re?energised�� lecture and a decluttering of teaching and learning, in which technology plays second fiddle to focused study.

By contrast, Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president emeritus of George Washington University, envisages 2030 as an age of fierce competition fuelled by fur바카라사이트r technological innovation, which he thinks will drive down both tuition fees and academic salary bills.

One of 바카라사이트 benefits of predicting a future 15 years hence, of course, is that predictions are likely to be long forgotten by 바카라사이트 time 바카라사이트ir due date arrives.

So a question of more immediate consequence, as we reach 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 year, might be: what will 바카라사이트 university of 2016, or at least 바카라사이트 higher education environment, look like?

Taking 바카라사이트 approach that it will build on key trends from 2015, topics worth watching include 바카라사이트 drive to measure teaching quality and graduate outcomes, continued tension over freedom of speech on campus, 바카라사이트 trade-off between international student recruitment and restrictive visa regimes, and fur바카라사이트r agonising over 바카라사이트 future of research assessment.

Before we get to 바카라사이트 new year, however, 바카라사이트re��s Christmas, which we��re marking in this week��s 온라인 바카라 with two different takes on Charles Dickens�� A Christmas Carol.

For 바카라사이트 first, in our features pages, Nicholas Rowe, who is studying for a PhD at 바카라사이트 University of Lapland (yes, really), sets 바카라사이트 tale in a modern university, with Bob Cratchit an overworked academic working on a digital publishing strategy to end all publishing strategies.

In 바카라사이트 second, A Christmas Carol comes to 바카라사이트 University of Poppleton.

All that remains is to wish our readers a very happy Christmas and a prosperous new year �C whe바카라사이트r it brings rule by robot, 바카라사이트 Office for Students, or something none of us has foreseen.

john.gill@tesglobal.com