The Meaning of 2025 | HESA
Alex Usher,
HESA,
Dec 11, 2024
There are many places where I disagree with Alex Usher, but I think we're on the same page on this one. First, "we've spent 80 years building a system of higher education that is simply more expensive to run than the public is willing to support."Second, "Think about the consequences of reducing those cross-subsidies within universities at the exact moment when advances in technology are opening up huge potential advances in energy, materials science, and health." The cost of not supporting the system is huge. Usher argues that government is not coming to save the system. probably true. But I counter with the obvious: industry isn't going to save the system either. And so we agree that the higher education sector "is going to have to work out solutions on its own." I've spent a lifetime working on digital technologies for learning to try to help make that happen. But like a light bulb, the sector is going to have to want to change.
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