Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

By Professor Tshilidzi Marwala | Published Jun 17, 2020

This month, Rhodes University’s former vice-chancellor Professor Saleem Badat responding to my article stated that engineers and technologists should not be the only people leading the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) conversations, but also those in the social sciences and humanities. As he puts it “4IR is viewed as an entirely scientific and technological matter, not as a social or human matter.