Rethinking Higher Education

Wendy Purcell shares about rethinking higher education on episode 207 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I think you’re seeing that universities now are needing to be much more connected to the society we serve.
—Wendy Purcell

You really will be learning throughout your life.
—Wendy Purcell

The very best education should transform you.
—Wendy Purcell

You are supporting transformation of people, and through people, transformation of society at large.
—Wendy Purcell

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
—Socrates

To an unprecedented extent, universities must partner with government, business, and civil society to take on the grand challenges of sustainable development that lie ahead.
—Jeff Sachs

If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Resources Mentioned

• Envisioning pathways to 2030: Megatrends shaping the future of global higher education and international student mobility. January, 2018
• Global universities unprepared for sea change ahead. 26th January, 2018
• Future of skills and lifelong learning. 22nd November, 2017
• Differentiation of English universities: the impact of policy reforms in driving a more diverse higher education landscape. Purcell, W.M. et al (2016).  
• Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education 20(1): 24-33. 
  Education is the kindling of a flame: How to reinvent the 21st-century university. 5th Jan, 2018; update 8th Jan
• The 2018 Trends Report (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Episode 141: The Danger of Silence with Clint Smith