The challenges facing graduates now and into the future are complex. There are social, cultural, economic and environmental demands that will call for graduates who can confidently apply critical reasoning and creative thinking to these challenges. These are the types of graduates needed, namely those who help to advance society positively – graduates who have practised creative thinking and can question, take a new approach to existing problems, and trial and evaluate new concepts and ideas. And universities will need to respond accordingly. A quote attributed to Einstein sums up these principles well: “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”
