In our increasingly technologically driven world creativity is as vital as ever, explains Vikas Pota. So we should be concerned about a school curriculum that over emphasises STEM subjects and standardised testing.
This year’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report, published today by Unesco, underlines the stark disparities in education between the rich and poor world.
In particular, it highlights that the world’s poorest children are four times more likely to be out of primary school than the world’s richest children.
While the West frets about the future of skills and how to equip young people for technological change, some battered education systems in the developing world are struggling with the basics.
For education ministers in these countries, the correct policy prescriptions are clear, even if they are fiendishly difficult to implement given their lack of resources.
For their equivalent numbers sitting in their ministerial limousines in the developed world, who have the luxury of being free from such fundamental worries, it is perhaps less clear what they should be doing to ensure that their education systems turn out young people who can compete against lower-paid skilled workers from emerging economies.... Keep reading on The Telegraph
This year’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report, published today by Unesco, underlines the stark disparities in education between the rich and poor world.
In particular, it highlights that the world’s poorest children are four times more likely to be out of primary school than the world’s richest children.
While the West frets about the future of skills and how to equip young people for technological change, some battered education systems in the developing world are struggling with the basics.
For education ministers in these countries, the correct policy prescriptions are clear, even if they are fiendishly difficult to implement given their lack of resources.
For their equivalent numbers sitting in their ministerial limousines in the developed world, who have the luxury of being free from such fundamental worries, it is perhaps less clear what they should be doing to ensure that their education systems turn out young people who can compete against lower-paid skilled workers from emerging economies.... Keep reading on The Telegraph