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font-size: 18px; color: #000000; text-align: left; display: block; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; font-weight: bold; padding: 10px 20px;"> <div></div> <div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">In conversation with</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Crystal Lim-Lange</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Overhauling Education</span> </div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br></div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Click </span><a href="http://www.insideasiapodcast.com/education-overhaul/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; 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The right to education ranks alongside food, shelter, and job opportunity as a foundation requirement for any progressive society. Yet, the very tenants of traditional education and the perceived importance of a formal degree are increasingly the subject of scrutiny, and in some cases, derision.&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I&#x2019;m writing this just hours before boarding a flight back to the US where I&#x2019;ll have the honor and pleasure of watching my daughter graduate from a prestigious American college. As a proud father, I can say that it was well worth the investment, but for millions of people the world over, the price of education and the results generated oftentimes run at odds to market expectations.&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The Purpose of Higher Education</span></div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The universal question being asked is this: Do high schools and universities effectively prepare students for a world rife with change, disruption, and the unpredictable impact of artificial intelligence, or not?</span></div> <div><br></div> <div> <span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">o help me answer these questions and more, I spoke with&#xa0;</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystal-lim-lange/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(54, 97, 189); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Crystal Lim-Lange</a><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, a self-described &#x201c;future-readiness expert,&#x201d; who in partnership with her husband,&#xa0;</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfgreg/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(54, 97, 189); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Dr. Gregor Lim-Lange</a><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">, have created a business to help students and organizations cope with the pressures of modern life and learning.&#xa0;</span> </div> </div></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="min-width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" width="100%" align="" valign="top"> <div class="gl-contains-text"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="editor-text editor-text " align="left" valign="top" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #6F6E6E; text-align: left; display: block; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px;"> <div><table class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="mso-table-rspace: 5.75pt;" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="image-cell " align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px;"> <div class="publish-container"> <img alt="" class="" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100% !important;" width="230" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/41ca3c44701/edca9470-37a8-4940-969a-dc6744683937.png"> </div> </td> <td class="mobile-hidden" width="15" height="1" align="center" valign="top" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" width="15" height="1" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mobile-hidden" height="5" align="center" valign="top" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" width="1" height="5" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;"> </td> <td class="mobile-hidden" width="5" height="5" align="center" valign="top" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" width="5" height="1" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div> <div> <span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">My conversation with Crystal in this week&#x2019;s episode of&#xa0;</span><a href="http://www.insideasiapodcast.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(54, 97, 189); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Inside Asia</a> <span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">left me with more questions than answers, releasing in Pandora Box fashion a stream of insights that now hang over the world of education like purple haze. The pervasive appeal of higher education at any cost feels more like a universal social conundrum than a matter of simple value for money. In our status-conscious world, for reasons that elude the empirical mind, demand for access to elite institutions continues to rise. Witness this year&#x2019;s US college admissions bribery scandal &#x2013; nicknamed &#x201c;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_bribery_scandal" target="_blank" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(54, 97, 189); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Operation Varsity Blue</a><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">.&#x201d; In March, FBI agents unearthed evidence to show that at least 50 families paid intermediaries more than $25 million in bribes to guarantee college admission for their children at select schools.&#xa0;</span> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Influence peddling is nothing new. But when you consider the already astronomical price of US college tuition,&#xa0;</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">then</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">consider what some people are apparently willing to pay, it begs two questions: First, what&#x2019;s going on with the perceived value of select University education? And second, is education little more than fashion &#x2013; something worthy of flaunting?</span> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The Three S's of Higher Education</span></div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Crystal has a theory. She calls it &#x201c;The Three S&#x2019;s.&#x201d; Skills, Signaling and Social Networks, she says, are the three Amigos behind the persistent appeal for top University admission. With exception of the first, these are questionable reasons for pursuing higher education and a long cry away from how higher education sees itself.&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">How did this massive disconnect come about and how founded is the idea that bragging rights and affiliation gain you more success in the world than the simple rigors of learning and research?&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Here&#x2019;s my take: The public pervasiveness of social networking and looking good has whittled its ways into the hallowed halls of our most laudatory academic institutions. So much so that for some, Harvard is a fashion statement. Princeton is a bumper sticker. Stanford is a golden ticket to Silicon Valley and Yale&#x2026;.oh, yes&#x2026;.Yale that can earn you a US Presidency.&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I&#x2019;m being facetious, but like so many things, impressions and perceptions aren&#x2019;t always clear indicators of what really is. Sure, your odds may go up on the success factor if you attend a US Ivy League, but there&#x2019;s nothing close to a guarantee. In fact, the world is showing us day-in and day-out that drop-outs and self-educated mavens are doing as much, if not more, to innovate, succeed, and change the world. You can&#x2019;t package and sell that, can you? Some people are simply more talented and self-motivated than others.</span></div> <div><br></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Corporates Bringing Pressure to Bear on Educators</span></div> </div></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="min-width: 100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" width="100%" align="" valign="top"> <div class="gl-contains-text"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="editor-text editor-text " align="left" valign="top" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #6F6E6E; text-align: left; display: block; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px;"> <div><table class="editor-image OneColumnMobile" style="mso-table-rspace: 5.75pt;" align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="mobile-hidden" width="15" height="1" align="center" valign="top" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" width="15" height="1" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;"> </td> <td class="image-cell " align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px;"> <div class="publish-container"> <img alt="" class="" style="display: block; height: auto !important; max-width: 100% !important;" width="340" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/41ca3c44701/91c67737-4207-48d6-9c0e-e3a27326f9c3.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mobile-hidden" width="5" height="5" align="center" valign="top" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" width="5" height="1" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;"> </td> <td class="mobile-hidden" height="5" align="center" valign="top" style="height: 5px; line-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" width="1" height="5" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" style="display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <div class="text-container galileo-ap-content-editor"><div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">So what are the rest of us to do? Should top Universities simply acquiesce to the idea that they&#x2019;re little more than a gathering place for social mavens and billionaire wannabes? Or should they respond to a higher calling, reassess their obsession with ratings and rankings, and focus on re-inventing education to genuinely equip new generations with the ability to grapple with the big issues, like climate change, political over-reach, and artificial intelligence. I&#x2019;m being a bit harsh, I know. To be fair, Universities are chock-o-block with in-depth programs and committed educators and there&#x2019;s nothing fundamentally wrong with wanting to be the best.&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">But here&#x2019;s the thing: Universities are no less subject to the forces of disruption than any other sector in the world today. Banks, Insurance companies, Retailers and Telecommunications companies are all in the throes of remaining relevant to consumers. Universities are no different. So if the signals from the marketplace are telling you that the students coming out of the system are ill-equipped, it&#x2019;s time to listen.</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">&#xa0;</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">What do you think? Listen to my full conversation and leave us a comment on Facebook, Twitter or Linked-in. You can also download this or any of our other 88 episodes. 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