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Deputy Vice Chancellor Deborah Johnston MBE of London South Bank University and graduate of SOAS and Cambridge University asks these big questions with Paul Harpur OAM of UQ and I. She argues that universities with a mission for social mobility are better placed to serve our more inclusive skills-based agenda. But they need to have the courage to stand out from the crowd, be freed from excessive regulation, and be measured for what they are good for more than what they are good at.

Minerva Founder Ben Nelson outlines the work that builds on the measurable outcomes of improved learning being achieved in Minerva University to change what he sees as an outdated higher education model. He argues that  the current higher education approach has students cram, pass and forget the knowledge they have gained from what we all know to be failed educational processes and curricula. Minerva University seeks to teach diverse students to learn and Minerva Project seeks to scale that model in transforming a 1000 year old university model over a 50 year period of change. What do you think of this model and where progress is up to?

This episode has a panel co-hosted with Joel Di Trapani co-CEO of VYGO. We had a chance in front of 10,000 delegates at the ASU+GSV summit in San Diego recently to lead a discussion on how technology generally and AI in particular is being used to support students in both Australia and the US. With global experts in Linda Brown, David Linke and Candace Sue on our panel we dissected the different approaches to innovation in the two contexts in a live broadcast from the world's leading gathering of HigherEd tech experts.

Arthur Levine is a scholar of HigherEd with a pedigree that includes working with Clark Kerr and Ernest Boyer at the Carnegie Foundation. He also has experience as a US college president including at Columbia Teacher's College. In this episode he updates his 2021 book written with Scott van Pelt called The Great Upheaval. He uses analysis of history, forecasts of the future, and lessons from a sideways look at related industries to predict the widespread disruption of global higher education and calls for all global university leaders to heed the message and act to adapt or become irrelevant.

Anthony Finkelstein as VC and President of City University of London explores issues of disruption and transformation facing global universities due to technology ahead of his merger with St George's University of London on August 1st. He says"if we are able to fulfil the potential of technology we will deliver improved quality of hyper personalised education for lifelong learning and the opportunity is immense and for the good. We just need to do something about it."

Linda Brown CEO and Alwyn Louw tell the story of Torrens University Australia 1.0 on stage at the HEDx conference in Melbourne in March. They tell of its incredible growth as a private American-owned Corp to become Australia's fastest growing university. They are followed by Nora Koslowski, Will Stubley, Kat Page, Omar de Silva and David Yip. These innovators explorie how the nature of work and skills needs have changed. They call for new business models of lifelong learning provision to emerge alongside our public and private universities in global lifelong learning markets. What will the more diverse future world of lifelong learning look like?