4 days of classes a week, own projects and contributions to the economy. This is the higher education of the future

In the academic community, for years there have been voices about the deficiency of a well-functioning model of cooperation between discipline and business. A remediation may be the introduction of a "project day" at universities. As a result, students would implement interdisciplinary projects, which would consequence in the final product, ready for commercialisation. Although introducing this solution would require a fundamental change in our reasoning about higher education, in [...]