Quest School
Higher education is unprepared for sea changes ahead
Students made no significant improvements in their critical thinking skills after four years of study
Approximately 2,300 students at 24 different universities studied [ Arumen & Roksa 2011 ]
36%
332m
Global tertiary enrollment and 2.3 million internationally mobile students by 2030.
Nothing works, unless you do.
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The college bubble”
Average tuition and fees increased by 1200% since 1980 while inflation is up 236%
US Bureau of Statistics
The cost of college has risen beyond inflation.
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89% of employers say graduates aren’t of parents prepared for work and 85% believe that the cost exceeds the value.
Big mismatch between the the global workforce and outcomes
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Standardised assessment models no longer prepare learners adequately for the future of work. Sitting in large lecture halls and listening to a tutor is boring and disengaging T
One size fits all
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Old structures for a small homogenous group of people yet there is a growing population of ‘non-traditional’ learners has vastly heterogeneous needs is neglected
Rigid campuses designed for a few
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The curriculum is lacking in aiding the discovery of students’ identity and life fulfillment.
Loss of self-purpose and meaning
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designed for information transfer not skill application. It is great at giving you information but terrible at helping you implement it
limited knowledge transfer
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“We are done waiting for the traditional legacy universities to adapt to the massive waves of changes that might render our species extinct, so we are building a new model that is autonomous and decentralized”
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We need to think differently
Our plans moving forward
We are living in a critical time of global transformation where humanity has fundamentally been impacted by planetary and societal complex systems to the point of crisis. In 2020 alone, humanity has faced the global pandemic, COVID-19, which according to John Hopkins University, reached upwards of 184 million cases worldwide and challenged the healthcare system to meet its demands.
Our world has never had a greater urgency in ensuring that students are equipped to tackle challenges that lay before them. The world, to a teenager, is a place rife with serious issues—When polled, dropouts report that they leave school because it has no relevance in their lives.
In the eyes of the emerging student, the world is a place composed of serious issues-- a global financial meltdown, planetary warming, dependence on fossil fuels, political unrest, and civil wars. Yet the student has to find a position in such a complex world. The traditional schooling system isn’t prepared for the massive waves of changes driven by rapid technological innovations that when polled, learners are totally disengaged in their path to intellectual growth.
What if our schools focused energy not on test scores and rankings but on engaging students in their learning process? What if education was more than facts and formulas as presented in books, but relevant to the world they see? What if rather than trying to teach students problem-solving, we actually encouraged them to take on problems that needed solving? Rather than teaching them a science curriculum, what if we opened the door for them to do science?
That’s why we structured our learning framework around challenges, not around courses.
DISCIPLINARY OUTCOMES
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT
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Our learning philosophy
Our plans moving forward
The world has always been in a race between technological advancements and skills gap, and when education lags behind, it leads to massive social pain and it must adjust in order for these societies to meet prosperity. The 21st century presents the most profound invention of humanity, artificial intelligence. Up to half of today’s jobs, around 2 billion are at high risk of disappearing due to automation and other factors driving obsolescence by 2030, according to The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. As a result, the World Economic Forum predicts over 50% of the one billion global knowledge workers are projected to need upskilling or retraining to avoid being pushed into under- or unemployment.
Tomorrow’s adults will need to problem-solve differently due to existential crises they will face
Pam Burnard
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Pilot program: Sustainability, Entrepreneurship & Technology
Students aged 16 -22 years acquire a robust toolkit to transform raw ideas into viable, fundable ventures and learn to create social impact at scale.
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Create more learning paths
Establish more learning paths for the after school program
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Establish the undergraduate college
Partner with accredited universities( host) to offer undergraduate programs at the centers of excellence established in 2024.
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Decentralized & autonomous academic centers
In each city, these serve as an inspiration to re-think education and catalyse change towards a model of lifelong learning. Global futures, Business, Arts & Humanities, Natural sciences, Computational & Data science
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Our Programs
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Quest School is developing adaptive curricular that synthesize a rigorous humane education with emphasis on future- proof competencies worth having for thriving in the knowledge -based economy and tailored towards preparing the next generation of leaders, innovators, and global thinkers to push humanity forward. Our curricula are being curated in partnership with the best universities across the globe and the world’s greatest thinkers at corporations, multinational organizations focused on the future of work and societal impact initiatives.
Interested in joining our journey, contact Us
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Self-paced and Individualized Education
On 1st April 2013, Arnold Kling predicted that within a decade or two, the idea that learning can be located in time and space will no longer seem natural. Schools occupying physical spaces is a huge factor causing the rise in tuition fees and as a result, a lot of learners are left out.
That is why we leverage the existing communication platforms and tools to deliver our programs making them accessible to almost everyone in the world whatever the time zones or functional backgrounds.
Our learning is multidimensional, just as the learners, consisting of byte sized content in form of articles, books, pre-recorded lectures, and blogs that have been curated by leading tutors who update these over time to align with both societal and industrial demands. Each learner owns a personal dashboard where to access feedback from mentors and learning guides, this enables progress tracking and mastery of the core competencies. Supplemented by real-time seminars of almost 20 peers with a learning guide who acts more like a friend to help learners navigate their journeys and achieve success.
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Month 1
•Join a cohort-based community inspired by the South African concept of Ubuntu
• Develop the three dimensions of knowledge aligning with the 21st-century workforce and living in a world of dynamics technological advancements; these are humanistic, meta, and foundation concepts.
Months 2 to 5
Month 6
• Small micro-internships and or mentorships professionals with senior students and successful professionals from diverse academic backgrounds.
• Capstone Project presentations during which students share their reflections and plans for the future and are celebrated by their peers and the larger community. Student-led summit the Republic inspired by a Socratic dialogue authored by Plato around 375 BC platform where students engage in solving challenges with stakeholders
Scholars Program
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Program Outcomes
Digital Badges
Competencies defining future-citizen skills that are transferable to college and subject specific .mastery
Portfolio Of Projects
Socialize into the global workforce with mental disciplines and ethics through real-life application of knowledge.
Global networks
Collaboration with a robust network of peers and mentors from across the world.
Keith Shepherd's "Sunday Best”. http://baseballart.com/2010/07/shades-of-greatness-a-story-that-needed-to-be-told/
The “Social Graph” behind Facebook
Network Science: Introduction
Nurture futurists who will innovate solutions to global challenges
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Challenge-based & collaborative learning
Research particular needs through surveys, opinion polls and site visits to gather information in pursuit of guided discovery of solutions
Investigate
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work in groups to craft solutions based on authentic reviews got from phase 3.
Act
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Create multimodal pieces of the entire learning process inform of podcasts, blogs, web pages or videos.
Publish
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formulate essential questions which connect to your purpose and a big idea that is a broader concept to a given community or the world.
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Engage
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Global community meeting + Habits checkpoint.
Other activities include multimedia space (video, photography, podcast), Makerspace (robotics, fashion, design & technology), and the performing arts.
FRIDAY
Active learning seminar
Interactive virtual sessions moderated by a learning guide.
THURSDAY
Group sessions within a small learning group + Mentorship
express yourself through reflective presentations, Ted talks while accessing bite-sized content curated for easy understanding
WEDNESDAY
flourishing sessions
Purpose inspired learning based on the Japanese concept of IKGAI with topics on mindfulness, wellbeing, etc
TUESDAY
Active learning seminar
Interactive virtual sessions moderated by a learning guide.
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Gain more in less time..
In a typical week, learners participate in various activities tailored towards developing future proof skills
Join a learning hub in your city.
Spaces in which innovative personal learning experiences happen
Learning hubs are the lighthouses for learning innovation that make a personal learning paradigm experienceable and empower learners to collaborate with peers, mentors and their community. In each city, these serve as an inspiration to re-think education and catalyse change towards a model of lifelong learning.
Compartments in each of these community hubs include multimedia space (video, photography, podcast), Makerspace (robotics, fashion, design & technology), and the performing arts.
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Interested in seeing a learning space (with a hybrid modality of the program) in your city? Please fill this form here
Concentrations
Physical sciences
life sciences
Politics, Philosophy & Economics
Global studies
Philosophy
Computer science
Economics
Cognitive science
Arts & Humanities
Data science
Anthropology
Psychology
Comparative literature
Education studies
Environmental studies
Computational & Applied Mathematics
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Law, Letters, and Society
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Public Policy studies
African studies
Physical sciences
Urban studies
Engineering & Applied science
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This is the start of an exciting journey.
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