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Perspective Chapter: Higher Education Challenges

In: Higher Education - Reflections From the Field - Volume 1

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  • Juan Sebastian Vergara Palma

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One of the main challenges that current higher education faces is aspiring to a coherent educational formation in a society that is in permanent change. This has direct implications for how a proposal consistent with the demands and needs of the world of work is built and how it innovates as it progresses. Flexibility and contextualization are two fundamental axes when facing the challenge of current higher education. This allows students to present themselves in a dynamic world that is in permanent change. This means that, in turn, the academic offer must, necessarily, diversify, attentive to the rapid changes in the environment. Therefore, offering a wide variety of options gives students a more realistic and achievable possibility of connecting with the world of work. In this sense, it is important to promote the empowerment of students in the face of their professional development within their university educational path.

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  • Juan Sebastian Vergara Palma, 2023. "Perspective Chapter: Higher Education Challenges," Chapters, in: Lee Waller & Sharon Waller (ed.), Higher Education - Reflections From the Field - Volume 1, IntechOpen.
  • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:293568
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.109318
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    Keywords

    curriculum; flexibility; contextualization; innovation; autonomy;
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    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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