ABSTRACT
SUMMARY This chapter highlights the distinction between flexibility as a mode of teaching and learning and flexibility as a quality to be developed in our students. It challenges the assumption that flexible learning automatically produces flexible graduates. This is an important issue because increasingly the world of work is demanding that employees be flexible not only on a day-to-day basis but also throughout their careers. The era of a single job for life may well be over. The chapter therefore considers how best to strengthen our students’ capacity for flexibility and how far this objective can be achieved through the kinds of activities commonly undertaken in the name of flexible learning.
