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Dieter Vanwalleghem, director, iMBA programme, Rennes School of Business “There’s a dangerous trend in business education that everyone is looking for the short-term application of learning, and micro-credentials are in line with that trend. We focus overly on what is important for the paradigms of the world we’re currently living in, but education should also give people the tools to move and change these paradigms, or they will never be able to move forward along paths of sustainable transformation and digital transformation. In business schools, the customer sometimes wishes to gain immediately applicable skills, and things that can be valued in the jobs market. This is where business schools perhaps must try to educate customers and say 'we might know something you don’t', taking a paternalistic approach in terms of saying that students should devote a quarter or a third of the curriculum to courses of a more fundamental nature. This will help students to change paradigms, not just to be employable in existing paradigms.” Jane Usher, head of department: postgraduate studies, Milpark Business School “I think there needs to be a balance between the quick, stackable micro-credentialing, and an underlying foundation of long-term critical thinking. There is a role for short courses, but what we do is make sure that these
“If the whole paradigm of education is about to change to skills-driven education, I see an additional level of (tough) competition for business schools”
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