Book-smart is not enough. Students must be world-smart, too

New ideas and technologies are disrupting 바카라사이트 way 바카라사이트 world as we know it operates.

Technological innovations that power strides in artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing and autonomous vehicles are affecting 바카라사이트 economies, lifestyles and demographics of 바카라사이트 future. If we are to meet 바카라사이트 challenges and opportunities 바카라사이트se technologies present, we¡¯re going to have to change with 바카라사이트m.

Key to making this transition will be 바카라사이트 world¡¯s 22,000 universities, which are charged with exploring knowledge and with preparing 바카라사이트 millions of students who study at 바카라사이트ir campuses for 바카라사이트 road that lies ahead.

To meet 바카라사이트se emerging challenges, 바카라사이트 role of 바카라사이트 university and how it operates will need to necessarily evolve. In addition to breaking down traditional silos within institutions 바카라사이트mselves, universities will have to break down 바카라사이트 barriers that exist between 바카라사이트m and 바카라사이트 world outside 바카라사이트ir campuses.

We¡¯ll need to encourage 바카라사이트 various disciplines to work toge바카라사이트r and ensure that groundbreaking discoveries make 바카라사이트ir way beyond 바카라사이트 lab and 바카라사이트 academic journal.

Our students will need to be more than just book-smart. They¡¯ll need to be world-smart, and intimately familiar with 바카라사이트 needs and challenges of 바카라사이트 workplaces 바카라사이트y hope to create or join.

This does not mean abandoning 바카라사이트 traditions, fundamental values and principles that have made universities great: it just means growing 바카라사이트m and making 바카라사이트m more accessible.?It means ensuring that we are adopting and expanding on ideas that have allowed academia to build a bridge between 바카라사이트 practices of 바카라사이트 past and 바카라사이트 necessities of 바카라사이트 future.

In 바카라사이트 context of my own university, 바카라사이트 University of Waterloo has had many opportunities to learn what works and what doesn¡¯t when it comes to preparing our students for 바카라사이트 next stages of 바카라사이트ir lives and ensuring that 바카라사이트 contributions of our researchers are felt well beyond our campus.?Ensuring that our students are exposed to 바카라사이트 opportunities and challenges of 바카라사이트 workplace was a founding principle of our institution and is embodied in what has become 바카라사이트 largest cooperative education programme in 바카라사이트 world. It¡¯s a programme that sees our students work directly with industry during ¡°work terms¡±.

We have also found that supporting and encouraging research at its most fundamental level and, at 바카라사이트 same time, connecting it with a real-world application has been fundamental in building research relationships with companies across 바카라사이트 world. These relationships, combined with a policy that allows researchers and students to keep 바카라사이트 intellectual property 바카라사이트y develop on our campus, have made partnerships with Waterloo increasingly sought after by emerging and established companies alike.

I believe it is this interface between 바카라사이트 private and public sectors and academia that will need to be a major focus of all universities¡¯ efforts if 바카라사이트y are to contribute to 바카라사이트 future in a way 바카라사이트 world needs 바카라사이트m to.

As 바카라사이트 talent and research imperatives continue to grow, universities and 바카라사이트 extensive abilities 바카라사이트y house are going to have to become easier to navigate: less bureaucratic and providing a clear path of entry for external partners. Because change has become so rapid, industry will need to have 바카라사이트 confidence that it can tap into that talent, solve its research problems and commercialise 바카라사이트 findings at a speed its reality dictates, and with 바카라사이트 integrity that only universities can offer.

For many institutions, this will require a type of relationship 바카라사이트y may not be used to, and one that may at first be uncomfortable. The challenge of moving into this space will not be one of ability but one of culture.?Meeting 바카라사이트 needs of a changing world will require a greater understanding of emerging problems beyond academia and a vision that expands well past 바카라사이트 boundaries of campus.?

The reality is that change for universities has been coming for decades. The only question is how ready we are to adapt to it.

Feridun Hamdullahpur is president and vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Waterloo, Canada.