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Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Friday, March 06, 2009
Turning the education system on its head - Public Service UK
The changing nature of society means higher education must adapt to serve the needs of a much wider section of the community than simply fresh-faced 18-year-olds. Alison Thomas talks to Christine King about how Britain's universities are rising to the challenge. The message that we need to gear up to cope with the globalised, technologically-savvy knowledge economy of the 21st century is reiterated so frequently that it is fast becoming a cliché. But what will creating the flexible and highly skilled population capable of coping with whatever the future throws at us really mean for the education system?

 



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