Quotes below — with emphasis from DSC
Already more than one in three students studies part-time and one in six is from overseas.
There will be more mature students, more studying part-time, more living in their own or their parents’ homes, and many more studying online.”
There will be more tailor-made vocational courses, operated in partnership with individual companies and employers.
There will be more “pick-and-mix” degrees, with students accumulating course credits at different universities, even across different countries, and with gaps for employment in between.
Students will increasingly become “consumers” as we reach the tipping-point where their contribution to the cost of the degree is greater than that made by the government.
Private providers will take over an increasing share of the university market.
The all-round university will increasingly lose out to more specialised institutions.
Finally, universities will become more global.