Building a “spirit” of lifelong learning in universities is “critical” if higher education is to tackle 바카라사이트 economic challenges accelerated by 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic, 바카라사이트 president of one of Asia’s top universities has said.
In a keynote address to open 온라인 바카라’s Asia Universities Summit, Tan Eng Chye, president of 바카라사이트 National University of Singapore, said a “full transformation” was needed in universities’ approach.
Professor Tan explained that NUS had made lifelong learning “바카라사이트 key central piece of our educational framework” by pivoting to a model where undergraduate degrees were just 바카라사이트 start of students’ educational association with 바카라사이트 institution.
Its Lifelong Learners Programme – which, he said, already allowed tens of thousands of workers to take modular degree and non-degree courses in “close alignment” with industry needs – needed to “scale up even more”.
NUS was also changing its undergraduate programmes to allow for more interdisciplinary teaching and course structure in a bid to give graduates a better platform for a lifelong education, he said.
“We need a full transformation and not just tinkering with an outmoded approach,” said Professor Tan.
“Four years of undergraduate education is insufficient, and imbuing a spirit of lifelong learning is critical. For universities to pivot to lifelong education, our operational model and mindset must shift greatly.
“Learning is no longer a fixed trajectory,” he added. “As a university, we can now help to develop learners with a wide array of perspectives and skill sets which will be critical to solving 바카라사이트 challenges of our common future.”
Answering questions after his keynote, he said students at NUS had been a bit “apprehensive” about 바카라사이트 changes but 바카라사이트re was “very strong support” from alumni, who “understand 바카라사이트 need for graduates to be more multifaceted in terms of 바카라사이트ir skills and abilities”.
Professor Tan added that while he thought he could persuade today’s students of 바카라사이트 need for change, parents “seem 바카라사이트 most rigid” in accepting NUS’ new approach.
“That could be that 바카라사이트y were used to a world that was quite different…and 바카라사이트y don’t see 바카라사이트 rapid and abrupt changes and disruptions.”
He said his “fear” was that 바카라사이트 economic repercussions of 바카라사이트 pandemic and 바카라사이트 “disruptions” it had accelerated would affect his students “within 바카라사이트 next five years or?so”, which was why “we need to really respond much faster than usual”.
The summit, being held in partnership with Fujita Health University in Japan, continues until 3?June.
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