“The world’s education systems are failing our children by not preparing them for the workplace of the future.“
This stark statement is the key finding of a new report by the World Economic Forum, Realizing Human Potential in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The report outlines practical measures for aligning education and training with future job requirements. Other key recommendations in the report focus on the need for digital fluency and “incentivizing employees to commit to lifelong learning so they continue to develop their skills or even retrain for new roles“, as noted in this analysis.
Interestingly, since January 2017 there has been a proliferation of well-researched articles, opinion pieces, and whitepapers which echo the sentiment behind this stark indictment of the current education-to-employment system. It seems that there is a growing recognition that the degree qualifications on offer to today’s students just cannot keep up with the rapid pace of change in the employment sector.
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