Colleges ‘must be more age concious’

Colleges are heading down the path to extinction unless they become more age conscious, one of the world’s leading experts on older people claims.

Higher education has yet to focus on this change — including the huge increase in potential students in their 50s and beyond.

Barbara Vacarr, recently named as one of the US’s 2015 Influencers in Aging, said this is really worrying more than in any other sector, “higher education will need to rethink itself as the population ages or else they will become extinct”.