The first is training especially through high quality, degree level, apprenticeships in areas like advanced manufacturing and coding and for engineering and construction skills at all levels.
With parents and students increasingly making demands from universities about employability and employers frequently lamenting the quality of British graduates, any institution that survives in a higher education landscape that could change dramatically in the next few years is going to have to develop and accommodate high quality degree programmes.
A starting point of high quality, degree level preparation is now established within the profession, and the importance of continuing education and career-long development is recognised as a necessary response to the complexity of patient's needs and the assurance of patient safety.
"Universities realise that there are more people who want a high quality degree than can be served on campus, and that their mission is to open more of their degrees to more people in the world," he said.
"We just want to prove that it can be done, to make a high-quality degree program available for a low cost".
"UK students gain a high-quality degree in a subject specific topic that they cannot get anywhere else in the world," says Prof Thilo Rehren, director of UCL in Qatar.
Professor Christine Ennew, pro-vice-chancellor for internationalisation at Nottingham, said: Across a range of subjects, including business, accounting, engineering, communications studies, international relations, English, pharmacy and bioscience, the university's campuses in China and Malaysia offer a range of high-quality degree programmes.
If we are to increase the number of scientists and engineers, we need to ensure adequate institutional capacity and accessible high-quality degree programs.
However, even though some job indicators are looking up for older workers, that doesn't mean past experience and a high-quality degree or certificate program will immediately lead to employment or better pay.
He says he wants to see recruits range from those with high-quality degrees to those with significant career experience and a wide and diverse range of backgrounds.
When the Open University (OU) was founded in 1969, it represented one of the most important educational innovations of the 20th century, not just in Britain, but across the world.Established by Britain's then prime minister, Harold Wilson, it is considered by many to be the first university to offer genuinely high-quality degrees through distance learning.
