| Topic | Reimagining the future of the university |
|---|---|
| Time schdule | 2021.10.27 12:10～12:50 (JST) |
| Venue | Zoom Webinar |
| Speaker | Dr. Adrian W J Kuah (National University of Singapore / Director, Futures Office) |
| Special Introduction | Prof. Makoto Aratono (Provost, Executive Vice President, Kyushu University) |
| Chair | Prof. Scott Valentine (Research Promotion Director of Q-AOS) |
| Language | Japanese and English (Simultaneous Interpretation) |
Overview
In this Brown Bag Seminar, I examine some of the driving forces and emerging issues that will impact on the “university”, not only in terms of its rationale, its structure, accustomed ways of operating, but also its relationship with the broader socio-cultural, economic and political context in which it is enmeshed. Given Industry 4.0 and especially the COVID-19 pandemic, it is conventional to frame the challenges confronting the university in terms of addressing employment and employability issues, the goodness of fit between skills supplied by higher education and skills demanded by industry; in other words, to frame the future of the university in technocratic terms. However, to the extent that I4.0 and COVID-19 and the burgeoning planetary climate crisis are an existential crisis confronting all humanity, it behoves us to ask existential questions of the university beyond the technocratic and the administrative. What is the meaning and purpose of the university? I suggest that far from being a trade-off, what is demanded of universities by today’s youths is both pragmatic and idealistic. To prepare our graduates for a world of work (in whatever form it takes) and also to help locate themselves as social and political beings in the cosmos.
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