education

People who fear losing their livelihoods due to automation, off-shoring or other economic changes receive plenty of advice from politicians and futurists about the need… Read More »What if I couldn’t be a software engineer?

In discussions of the impact of technological advances on work, much gets said about the the need for re-training to align workers’ skills with said… Read More »Re-training vs re-inventing

The Australian‘s Higher Education supplement this week (12 June 2019, p. 27 and p. 29) contained a pair of articles on workplace learning, both based on a… Read More »Who will pay for lifelong learning?

In one section of The Once and Future Worker (2018), Oren Cass contrasts the noble-sounding aspirations appearing in university mission statements with the reasons that… Read More »On academic ideals and student pragmatism