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Why higher education must be reinvented to suit the new generation of students

University Business

As a result, institutions must consider moving past its foundational model of fostering coming-of-age experiences for young adults to a knowledge service whose programs are as fluid as tomorrow’s digital native students. “This will threaten the very existence of those universities that cannot adapt to the sector’s new realities.”

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How do we enable transformative university transitions?

SRHE

Using yearly interviews with 40 home, undergraduate full-time students who started their studies in 2013/2014, my research at an English northern red brick university (NRBU) focused on how students understood, and made sense of, their experiences of student life as they moved into, through, and beyond university.