The life-long learning model involves the university offering an induction year which provides a transition from school study to independent study, and then predominantly offering distance education after that... but focused more around skill groups than degrees... skills relevant to promotions and career changes that incidentally accumulate into undergraduate and post graduate degrees as the student progresses through life.
This has the by product of spreading out the cost of education without reducing quality. Furthermore it taps into the fact we will all have to be constantly reeducating ourselves. With high dropout rates in higher education, is it reasonable to expect students to spend three or four or more years studying full time before they understand the relevance, or otherwise, of what they are learning? With high rates of technology change is it still possible to teach content in one year that will still be relevant 4 years later? Once a student leaves full time study, how can they return to the traditional degree on campus if they have a mortgage and family to sustain?
Thoughts?
Simon Collyer
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