This book focuses on the disruption of the tertiary higher education
system as a result of societal changes occasioned by the Fourth
Industrial Revolution and hastened by COVID-19. It takes the view that
higher education is on an inevitable trajectory of disruption as a
result of globalisation, technological disruption, and disaggregation of
the formal education sector but that it must not lose sight of its
central role in equipping current and future students for the new
economy.
The book takes a student-centric - and big-picture approach - examining
some of the biggest challenges facing massified higher education
systems. The authors consider ways to achieve modern, responsive and
efficient higher education systems globally that are economically sound
for governments and affordable for individuals.