Blantyre International University BIU) was established in 2008 to provide high quality university education for this century. This is predicated on its belief that education must be life-long – that education is not a spatial monopoly of something called the school and college; not a time-bound learning experience; there is no such thing as childhood education, adolescent education, youth education, or adult education.
There is just education which is a way of life, a life-long way of life. Every year, every month, every day, a person will be learning, open to learning and must be given the opportunity to learn in the home, school, university, factory, farm, hospital, office, co-operative, church, trade union, political party, cinema and club, etc. Education must be open. In this regard, BIU believes in the need for the re-orientation and revitalisation of education with a view to preparing the young for the modern times that we live in, as a result of the following demands:
- There will be large changes in job categories, with possible fifty per cent of job categories changing in one generation.
- Skills need to be renewed at the rate of approximately fifty per cent every three to five years.
- Technology will require increased multiple thinking.
The implication of these demands is that education for the workplace of this century needs to be broadly based. While the importance of academic and vocational capacities is well known, this is not true of the enterprise capability.
The enterprise capability includes skills of thinking, planning, communicating, organising, problem solving, monitoring and assessing. This demands a change in the way learning is achieved. It is also recognised that the most successful worker in the modern changed time and age is the person who has the most balanced personal development, and who is open to new ideas and opportunities.
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