This article is a mix of fantasy and reality and it's sometimes hard to separate the two. And it's hard to know exactly what OECD's education chief Andreas Schleicher is advocating here as he swing from saying "students go to university to learn from great professors, do ground-breaking research, collaborate with their peers on projects and experience the social life of campus living" to saying "the current model of studying four years for a degree and then going out to build a career, will not work any more." It demonstrates a tension, I think, between what universities actually do, and what OECD would like them to do. We see a very similar message in a report (behind a spamwall) from EY. "Universities must prepare for a future where students could demand degrees, low-cost options or asynchronous learning. Otherwise, institutions risk becoming obsolete."
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