Ask any university IT director what keeps them awake at night, and the answer rarely involves a single dramatic crisis. It is the accumulation of smaller pressures: a student information system that...
One might ask, why should a university, built to teach eighteen-year-olds and award degrees, spend time and budget building corporate training programs for employers who already have graduates on...
Technology Doesn’t Transform Universities. Leadership Does. Every year, universities sign contracts for new platforms: a fresh student information system, an upgraded LMS, an analytics...
A university’s reputation used to rest on its lecture halls, its library and the quality of its professors. Those things still matter, but they are no longer what a prospective student, a...
We decided electricity was an infrastructure in the 20th century. We have not yet decided the same about education. That needs to change. Every society that ever...
The most successful university in 2035 will not be the one with the best campus. It will be the one that does not need one. That sentence tends to produce two reactions among senior institutional...
You can graduate with a first-class degree and have no idea what is happening inside your own bank account. Millions already have. This is the financial literacy gap in higher education in its...
Somewhere right now, a university is celebrating a new international partnership. There will be a signing ceremony, a photograph of two Vice Chancellors shaking hands, and a press release...
The most educated person in the room may not have a degree. And increasingly, they know it. This is not a provocation aimed at universities; it is a description of a structural shift already...
Every year, millions of qualified people cannot access the education their economies need them to have. That gap has a dollar value. And it is enormous. Governments talk about growth. Investors...