Written by: Brandon Busteed
Published by: Forbes
MBA News Digest Comment: None.
Extracted Content: F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said “the test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” This is what higher education must do in re-evaluating the degree-based model of education. The demands of today’s students and the fast-changing global economy have rather suddenly exposed degrees as being both too long to complete and too short in their lasting relevance. And many of the gale-force winds facing higher education can be navigated effectively if we are able to simultaneously embrace these seemingly opposed and disruptive ideas.