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Alper Utku, founder of the European Leadership University, advocates for a transformative approach to higher education that emphasizes real employability and global relevance. In a recent interview, he outlined five key changes accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis that will reshape education: engaging students and teachers through new training methods, leveraging advanced technologies for better interaction, transforming educational materials into more interactive formats, promoting globalization by connecting students worldwide, and requiring institutions to adapt their management to a competitive, globalized market where students can choose any university.
These shifts, although expedited by the pandemic, reflect ongoing trends in education and represent an irreversible transformation. Utku stresses that universities must evolve to cultivate “universal citizens”—individuals who are not only experts in their fields but also equipped with collaborative and leadership skills to drive global progress. Post-pandemic education should focus on quality training that fosters open-minded, adaptable individuals capable of leading societal change. Ultimately, education must prepare students with the skills and vision needed to thrive in a connected, rapidly evolving world and contribute meaningfully to global development.
The expert of the Future Trend Forum, Alper Utku, explains the changes caused in education by the Covid-19 crisis.
Alper Utku is the founder of European Leadership University, a new educational experience that aims to provide a learning experience that equips students with skills linked to real employability. In addition, Alper is a global reference in the new trends that training must follow, especially higher education.
We have done this brief interview with him about how the crisis caused by Covid-19 will change training:
Alper highlights 5 essential points of the change that comes to education:
- How universities will engage students and teachers in the new form of training.
- The world of education has the opportunity to develop new technologies that allow better interaction.
- It points out the need to transform all educational material (from textbooks) to training sessions into new, more interactive forms.
- New forms of education will enhance the globalization of education, combining students from different regions of the world.
- Universities or educational institutions will have to change their management and adapt to the new globalized market, which is increasingly competitive, since all students will be able to choose to study at any university.
These changes are based on the best practices that educational institutions have been working on for some time, but the situation caused by the Covid-19 crisis has accelerated these changes, sometimes in a negative way, as in the case of the limitation of mobility. As Alper points out, this is an irreversible change.
For Alper, the university’s job is to create the universal citizen: a person trained in a specific discipline but who is prepared for society, with the necessary tools to collaborate, and even lead, the development of global society.
In the face of the world that is emerging after the Covid-19 crisis, education is essential to train citizens who have the necessary skills and adaptability to have an open and global vision, to expand the possibilities of global development. Educational institutions must work on quality training that trains free people, open to change and with the necessary skills to lead change.
Fundador de European Leadership University
