“The unmediated embrace of micro-credentials as pathways to employability must be challenged,” Sally Kift writes in an Australia-overview for a collection of assessments on the impact of COVID-19 on HE access and equity around the world

“How do we support all students, and particularly equity and first in-family students, to navigate the dizzying array of short courses on offer in the absence of a coherent, overarching lifelong learning narrative”, Professor Kift  asks.

Specific issues, she suggests, include;

* “unhelpful fragmentation of education”

* employers not being able to recognise MC

* “the untested promise of stackability”

Sally Kift is commissioning editor for the CMM series, Needed now in teaching and learning