Close collaboration between universities and industry can help higher education address the 'skills emergency' and rebuild trust in university qualifications, writes Dean of future learning and development Professor Mick Grimley.
The education landscape has been cataclysmically disrupted - first by new technologies and then by the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, governments and industry are crying out for new skills, referring to a global "skills emergency".
In Aotearoa New Zealand, higher education is responding to these disruptive changes - we see that shorter professional development courses and microcredentials have huge potential to bridge these skills and knowledge gaps.
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