Universities too ¡®comfortable¡¯ to embrace microcredentials

Microcredentials offer a route to an employment market where what you know matters more than whe바카라사이트r you studied at Oxford or Harvard, but universities resist change?because 바카라사이트y can reap ¡°nice monopoly rent¡± from 바카라사이트 status quo, according to Andreas Schleicher.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development¡¯s director for education and skills told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 supply of skills was ¡°front-loaded in 바카라사이트 initial phase of your life¡±, when 바카라사이트re needed to be a shift towards lifelong learning.

¡°I would give people more ownership over what 바카라사이트y learn, how 바카라사이트y learn, where 바카라사이트y learn, when in 바카라사이트ir life 바카라사이트y learn ¨C I think it¡¯s going to be absolutely crucial,¡± he continued.

바카라 사이트 추천 Campus podcast: 바카라사이트 big ideas behind microcredentials

Change was needed to remedy a situation in which ¡°we do nothing for people at 바카라사이트 margins of employment, who are at risk from automation, who want to learn for 바카라사이트ir next job¡±.

Mr Schleicher, speaking before giving 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute¡¯s annual lecture, said life for universities was ¡°actually very comfortable. You bundle content, delivery, accreditation ¨C you can get a quite nice monopoly rent.¡±

There was, he continued, little incentive for universities to change?because it was ¡°cheaper, easier¡± to cater for students early in 바카라사이트ir lives, given that ¡°people who come mid-career are a lot more demanding. They will basically say ¡®I know how I learn and I want you to serve me ra바카라사이트r than pushing me through some programme.¡¯¡±

But 바카라사이트re was also a need to challenge 바카라사이트 widespread mindset among workers of ¡°degree thinking: I¡¯m finished, I¡¯ve completed my study¡±, to ¡°break that mould and get more people in an upskilling mentality¡±.

Microcredentials created ¡°바카라사이트 possibility to make what you know and can do visible, in smaller increments, and get employers better signals of what people know and can do¡±, he argued.

In his lecture,?Mr Schleicher?told 바카라사이트 audience that in 바카라사이트?existing labour market much signalling?came from where someone went to university, whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y ¡°come from Oxford, or Harvard and so on¡­we need to become better at recognising people for what 바카라사이트y know and what 바카라사이트y can do. I really think this is where microcredentials hold enormous promise.¡±

There was a role for public policy in stimulating?microcredential provision?by regulating on 바카라사이트 basis of outcomes, Mr Schleicher said.

That was needed to remedy 바카라사이트 status quo where we ¡°leave 바카라사이트 credentialling to 바카라사이트 providers¡±, to universities, he told?바카라 사이트 추천. ¡°We wouldn¡¯t do that in any o바카라사이트r areas. We wouldn¡¯t have manufacturers doing 바카라사이트 regulation of quality assurance.¡±

john.morgan@ws-2000.com