| |9 NOVEMBER 2018HIGHERReviewThe evolution and internationalisation of the curriculum and the teaching and learning process has become as relevant as the traditional focus on mobilityty, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity for developing transformational and sustainable models of student centric, industry aligned, data driven and scalable mantras for per-sonalised higher education. In this age of innovation, quint-essential and timeless human values are being challenged in an age of disruption on the anvil of emerging technologies and innovation. Yes, in times of stability, we only require incremental adjustment and fine-tuning but the Universi-ties today confront radical change that requires bold inno-vation. Steve Jobs once famously observed that in a time of crisis "The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament." Perhaps, it is here that entrepre-neurs will guide the course of evolution for the universities of tomorrow. Knowledge coupled with creativity and innovation is the most powerful currency that Universities create and contrib-ute to society and the humankind and define higher educa-tion's purpose, as we address problems that have no borders in an increasingly flat world. In 2017, 5 million students travelled abroad in pursuit of higher education while inter-national students abroad have been increasing by roughly 12 percent each year in the 21st century in terms of UNESCO. At the same time, international research collaborations have flourished with more than three-quarters of scientific arti-cles published in journals were the product of at least two institutions, and one in three articles was authored by a global team.A significant driver for educational change is population growth and the demographic profile in our country. More than 50 percent of India's population is under the age of 25 and by 2020, India will have one of the youngest populations in the world, with an average age of 29 years, and India will outpace China in the next ten years as the country with the largest tertiary-age in 2020. The OECD predicts that in 2020, 200 million of the world's 25-34-year olds will be uni-versity graduates and 40 percent of these will be from China and India representing a huge proportion of the global talent pool. India has much at stake as the much-touted demograph-ic dividend may well turn out to be a demographic disaster if we fail to integrate values, morality and spiritualism into the sciences, humanities, arts, technical and the technological.Changing Paradigms in International Higher Education and the 4th Industrial Revolution:The World Conference on Higher Education, was a water-shed as it came up with the World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century: Vision and Action, 9 October 1998, However since then there has been a par-adigm shift in Higher Education with the digital revolution, the 4th revolution sweeping the higher education landscape that is causing disruptions across the globe. The evolution and internationalisation of the curriculum and the teaching and learning process has become as relevant as the traditional focus on mobility. Perhaps, everything has changed over the past decade with regard to the internation-alisation of higher education, and that this change is primarily from a more cooperative model to a more competitive model.Trends Driving Future Change and the Higher Education landscape:It is in this backdrop that it may be interesting to take note that in a report for Australia as early as in 2012 by Ernst & Young, captioned, `University of the future: A thousand-year-old industry on the cusp of profound change'. It was perceived that in the brave new world of the universities of tomorrow, five key trends would drive future change. These are:1) Democratisation of knowledge and access;2) Contestability of markets and funding where universities will need to compete as never before;3) Digital technologies will transform higher education deliv-ery and access to create value;4) Global mobility will grow for students, academics, and university brands to intensify competition and create opportunities;5) Integration with industry by the universities will be im-perative as drivers of innovation and growth.Surely not much has changed since the report, ex-cept that now some of these very technologies particu-larly block chain, internet of things and artificial intelli-gence has turned from enablers to be major disruptors,
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