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Home Zooangzi Our experience Learning approach Origin of Zooangzi Publications On Movie + Youtube Future higher education Cultivating creative change Download trainingsprogram Basic training Advanced training Expert training In-house Facilitation List of storytellers List of facilitators Contact us		Future higher Education FUTURE HIGHER EDUCATION Bright challenging future Clearly, in an age of knowledge, higher education will flourish in the decades ahead. In a knowledge-intensive society the need for advanced education and knowledge will become ever more pressing, both for individuals and for our societies more broadly. Yet, it is also likely that the university as we know it today will change in profound ways due to the weakening influence of traditional regulations, the emergence of new competitive forces, driven by changing societal needs, economic realities, and technology. Change around us Health care, transportation, communications and energy have lead the way in significant reinstitution, complete with the mergers, acquisitions, new competitors, and new products and services that have characterized other economic transformations. We are already seeing the early stages of the appearance of a global knowledge and learning industry, in which the activities of traditional academic institutions converge with other knowledge-intensive institutions such as telecommunications, entertainment, and information service companies. Balanced choices The pressure on change signals the necessity for empowered management that takes intelligent risks in pursuit of opportunity. In the past higher education has oscillated between implementing overarching controls and empowering its employees leaving much confusion and exasperation. This needs to be broken to achieve a sustainable balance between risk-taking and care-taking, through an agenda for applied creativity on the workplace. Much is said about the need to “get back to basics” and to focus on “core, mission critical” functions of higher education. Creativity is as much a part of this vital core as are the more conventional duties such as financial probity. Indeed, creative thinking has the potential to enhance all parts of an institution as a fundamental way of seeing work and as a set of identifiable activities.