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What is the role of universities in global upskilling?
Wide-scale investment in upskilling has the potential to boost global gross domestic product (GDP) by US$6.5 trillion by 2030 and lead to the creation of 5.3 million net new jobs globally by 2030, according to a new report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on 21 January.
Upskilling for Shared Prosperity, prepared in collaboration with PwC, is a call to action. It makes the economic case for providing employees with learning and development opportunities to expand their horizons while minimising skills gaps and makes sweeping generalisations while presenting country- and region-specific information that indicates that there are great differences between these.
New EU law needed to protect universities from big tech
Rector Magnificus of the University of Amsterdam, Professor Karen Maex, has called on European Commissioners to propose a ‘Digital University Act’ to secure universities’ status as independent education and research institutions and vital building blocks for the organisation of knowledge and to defend them against pressures from big tech companies.
In her
Dies Natalis (annual) speech, “Protect independent and public knowledge”, delivered on 8 January, she called on European Commissioners Mariya Gabriel and Margrethe Vestager not to leave the future of knowledge in the hands of unaccountable corporate businessmen making decisions behind closed doors.