What will a truly innovative university look like in five years? We should anticipate significant disruption to the status quo in the sector.
If we look back over the past five years, we can see significant disruptive forces changing and shaping the sector. And the five years before that would show even greater changes to the regulatory environment, funding, student behaviour, and technologies.
It’s not that all disruption comes in the form of new market entrants looking to displace universities wholesale. For all the Jo Johnson-era reforms, we have seen few new entrants radically reshape higher education provision.