Good morning Monday to all ka!
I got this article from Ajarn Piniti (former SG of OHEC), which is a good read with some more thoughts to add when discussing the future of higher education ka. It's written by George D. Kuh who is the Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at Indiana University (https://hbr.org/2019/10/why-skills-training-cant-replace-higher-education). It's about the US but I think some good points are for us to consider ka.
During these 2 decades, we've heard and talked a lot about future skills and speed of people acquiring them with some key roles of western university online courses and those offered by tech companies. Thailand has seen some new movements calling for short courses and micro-credits in some forms.
This article points out that what's been raised 'is typically on “vocational” skills'. I like the following statements ka:
....'privileging short-term job training over demanding educational experiences associated with high-levels of intellectual, personal, and social development — a foundation for continuous life-long learning — is a bad idea for individuals, for the long-term vitality of the American economy, and for our democracy.'
From my view, I think we generally could tend to:
- follow some new movements too fast while leaving some meaningful moves behind....not wrong to be fast but a bit slower to think of what important aspects could be ignored.
- be off-balanced like thinking of responding short over long-term objectives (even S&T vs Human & Social Sciences).....to think much less of why universities exist.....universities are tasked with responsibilities to prepare our generations who can lead their lives and the world(s).
The author says,'....many business leaders say that they prefer candidates who not only can do today’s work, but who will be able to continue to learn on their own in real time to do tomorrow’s work — jobs that have not yet been invented.' ....no shortcuts .....as the need to increase people with accumulated wisdom, interpersonal and practical competence, and more than a splash of critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and altruism.
I agree with him on his title, 'Our higher education can't be replaced'. I only wish our Thai universities probe well into themselves to identify what they can do best and no matter what, to realize that they exist meaningfully when they can inspire and help guide learners to lead decent lives as good human beings with valuable learning experiences to bring about fine progress for our country and world.
Start from senior leaders, faculty and staff dee mai ka?
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