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WHAT'S NEXT?: Education will increasingly be online, just-in-time and competence-based. VR will become more mainstream in education technology. The vision of easily accessible learning will be enormously powerful and widespread in a few years. The global artificial intelligence market in the education sector will grow exponentially and post an impressive CAGR of over 39% by 2020.

• [New] More students can deepen their study of mother tongue languages from 2027 as the Ministry of Education expands the Language Elective Programme at both the secondary and junior college levels. ST
• [New] From 2027, the Language Elective Programme will expand, adding schools for Chinese and Tamil languages to offer more students advanced mother tongue learning and cultural exposure. ST
• [New] The Ministry of Education will expand Tamil and Chinese language elective programmes and the Malay, giving more students opportunities to deepen their learning of mother tongue languages. CNA
• [New] In the second half of 2026, students from institutes of higher learning will have an Adulting 101 programme on key life transitions. ST
• [New] By 2026, online education will not simply be about uploading lectures online - it will be intelligent, immersive, adaptive, and deeply human-centric. TheTuitionE - Online Private Tuition - Dubai
• [New] One of the biggest shifts by 2026 will be artificial intelligence (AI) being deeply embedded in learning platforms. TheTuitionE - Online Private Tuition - Dubai
• By 2030, the number of students from institutes of higher learning going on overseas internships in ASEAN member states, China and India will double to 3,000 annually, up from 1,500 today. ST
• To meet the demand for overseas exposure, there will be 8,000 more places in the Asia-Ready Exposure Programme by 2030, taking the total number of short-term overseas opportunities and overseas internships available for students from institutes of higher learning to 20,000. ST
• By 2030, Pakistan aims to train more than 2 million AI professionals, develop 10,000 trainers and educators, introduce AI education from school to university, establish AI centers of excellence, create a national AI fund, and strengthen university-industry collaboration. United Nations
• The next decade will likely be characterised by integrated multimodal intelligence, continuous learning systems embedded in care pathways, regulatory maturity, stronger clinician leadership, and an explicit focus on equity and trust. European Medical Journal
• Teaching and Learning with AI is designed for higher education professionals, researchers, and policymakers from around the world who are interested in exploring the potential of AI in Higher Ed classrooms. Artificial Intelligence for All
• You will see how graduate hiring can rise while foundational tasks shrink, why AI experience is moving outside formal education, and how South Africa's access gap makes the first career step even harder. Memeburn
• Corporate learning and development is projected to grow at a 30.62% CAGR through 2031, making it the fastest-growing end user group. Mordor Intelligence
• As Bangladesh targets an ambitious leap in its education spending to 5% of GDP over the next five years, it must study Malaysia's long legacy of high public spending on education and the Malaysian Higher Education Blueprint 2026-2035. The Daily Star
• The UAE has become a global destination for higher education, offering students world-class learning opportunities and strong career prospects. ourinternational
• By 2026, personalized learning opportunities and well-being support are expected to be among the top deciding factors in whether employees stay or move on. L3RN ONLINE
• Despite the challenges posed by AI, Australia's world-class tertiary education system will adapt. The Guardian
• Industry initiatives like NYU Langone's Program for Medical Education Innovations and Research Projects are pushing for medical education structures that provide real-world learning applications and training to anticipate future changes. West Health Mosaic
• The US Department of Education plans to transfer many responsibilities of its Office of Special Education and OCR to the Department of Health and Human Services and DOJ, respectively, as part of the Trump administration's move to close the Education Department. Access Information News
• By 2030, interdisciplinary learning and real-world problem-solving will become central to curricula. UniDAIM

Last updated: 05 August 2026