Prof. Nizam, as the Director-General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Culture, said that higher education is currently confronting quite complex challenges with rapid, non-linear, and also uncertain changes in the world. Thus, he encouraged universities to modernize the current education system from a 3.0 industrial education pattern with very conventional competencies to a new rapid-development industry.
“We no longer need the old competence because we have lost many jobs,” he said in the online Talkshow of the Merdeka Campus Towards Society 5.0 in the 75th HPTT commemoration organized by the UGM Faculty of Engineering on Thursday (11/2).
Nizam revealed that McKinsey’s prediction stated that by 2030, robots/automation would take over around 23 million jobs. This number is much greater than the number of graduates in 10 years from all Indonesia’s universities.
“Each year, only 1.7-1.8 million students graduate, and this becomes a great challenge for universities in Indonesia to prepare competencies for jobs that do not currently exist,” he explained.
He highlighted that universities must develop the competence of their students to become true learners for their entire life. The reason is that the world is so dynamic, so there is no choice except to learn, adapt, and innovate.
According to him, in the era of the 4.0 industrial revolution, universities must make several breakthroughs and leaps. The campus should strengthen these efforts to produce millennials ready to build Indonesia towards society 5.0, leading to progressive, glorious, and prosperous Indonesia.
“Higher education has a role in coming out from the rigid learning frames into more dynamic and flexible learning, enabling students to learn from various sources. Various sources mean not only in the classroom, laboratory, and library but also opportunities for students to learn in real-life campus,” he explained.
Source: https://ugm.ac.id/id/berita/20742-perguruan-tinggi-harus-ubah-pola-pendidikan-hadapi-era-society-5-0
