“Futurology” and Higher Education in the Post-COVID-19 Environment

Authors

  • William Locke University of Melbourne

Keywords:

Futurologists, university management, higher education transformation, COVID-19 and higher education, academic workforce, university business model, innovation

Abstract

Even before COVID-19, futurologists maintained that a number of disruptions to higher education were combining to create cataclysmic scenarios for universities. These claims inform an increasingly dominant policy and management discourse about the need for rapid and radical transformations in academic conventions, business models, and working practices. However, what is needed are evidence-based and iterative approaches to imagining the future, drawing on universities’ own experiments with new forms of higher education.

 

Author Biography

William Locke, University of Melbourne

William Locke is professor and director of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Email: william.locke@unimelb.edu.au.

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Published

2021-01-15

How to Cite

Locke, W. (2021). “Futurology” and Higher Education in the Post-COVID-19 Environment. International Higher Education, (105), 7–9. Retrieved from https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/14369

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No. 105 (2021): Winter Issue

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