Good questions

 Good morning ka, everyone.

It's a busy zoom week for me and I'm glad I've got these questions for you to think further for this week ka.

I came across an article about Unesco's plan to organize its World Higher Education Conference next year. I've always been interested as I attended the first two and found some thought provoking sessions. The upcoming one sure caught my eye right away ka.

This time I like the questions given a lot. Since it wants to emphasize on 'reinvention', breaking away from traditional models of higher education, here are some of the questions ka:

- If higher education and the university were to be invented today – what would they look like? Thinking of Swedish model of Quadruple Helix (university-industry-government-public-environment interactions within a knowledge economy).

- Who would participate and complete his/ her higher education? 

- How would participants learn? 

- Where would they learn? 

- What knowledge, skills, competencies, and values would they need to develop to work, become global citizens, and live with dignity? 

- Who would guide these changes: institutional leaders, policy makers, researchers, students, professors, employers, community leaders, civil society groups?

Following this set of questions, I now think of a few more ka:

- Looking at our strategic plan, is it still in our same traditional format with more or less similar projects and activities? Meaningful links with missions and vision? 

- Have we had good thoughts for full coverage of our key stakeholders? Gen Z and A included? any seamless transitions from high school to higher education possible?

- How have we reviewed the past and looked into the future? Time to change the traditional role of universities from serving traditional groups and moving on the same tracks of time and curriculums?

- How have we prepared our university community to be true learners, not by positions and titles or traditional practices of hierarchy?

- Why do we want to be in the ranking race and whether it could be meaningful to our student learning?

More questions to discuss seriously for our learners' more stable future ka