by admin | Aug 24, 2020 | COVID Recovery, Digital Skills, Digital Transformation, Economic Development, Education Policy, Future Of Work, Government, STEM
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This article is part of the Young Global Leaders Annual Summit
Originally published on World Economic Forum by Marga Gual Soler Founder of SciDipGLOBAL, molecular biologist, advisor to the EU Science Diplomacy Cluster, and Komal Dadlani Biochemist and ed-tech entrepreneur. CEO/Co-founder at Lab4U,
- COVID-19 has forced big changes in the way lessons are delivered.
- But education worldwide needs an even more radical rethink.
- Science, technology, engineering and maths are crucial to our future.
COVID-19 has forced more than 1 billion students and youth out of school, triggering the world’s biggest educational technology (edtech) implementation in history, almost overnight. Schools and universities are scrambling to redesign their teaching and learning to allow for students of all ages to study from home. While this raises huge practical and logistic issues for students, teachers and parents (especially women), it opens up a world of opportunities to reimagine what learning looks like in the 21st century.
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by admin | Aug 3, 2020 | COVID Recovery, Digital Skills, Economic Development, Education Policy, Educational Equity, Government, United Nations, Youth Unemployment
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Originally published on World Economic Forum by Henrietta H. Fore & Robert E. Moritz
- COVID-19 is casting a long shadow over the futures of young people all around the world.
- On World Youth Skills Day, we asked young people their thoughts on redesigning education and skills for the post-COVID era.
For children and young people looking to gain an education and skills, COVID-19 has made a bad situation even worse.
Before the pandemic, they faced a growing mismatch between the skills they were learning in school and those needed for employment.
Now, under the shadow of COVID-19, over one billion are out of school altogether. And millions of young people who were set to join the workforce cannot find jobs.
This moment is an important opportunity to reimagine how, and what, education and skills are delivered to prepare students for a rapidly changing world of work.
But governments and businesses cannot address this problem alone.
So, on World Youth Skills Day, we decided to bring together young people from Algeria, Argentina and South Africa to hear their thoughts about how we can re-design and re-imagine education and skills systems to meet their needs.
The virtual discussion, moderated by Mari-Lisa Njenga, a youth advocate from Kenya, identified four important principles that should guide change.
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by admin | Jul 27, 2020 | Digital Skills, Economic Development, Educational Equity, Government, Youth Unemployment
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The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training is UNESCO’s only specialized centre for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and an integral component of UNESCO’s international programme on TVET. Through its capacity development programmes, collaborative projects and global UNEVOC Network, UNESCO-UNEVOC advocates for quality TVET that is accessible for all.
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The Education 2030 Agenda calls on Member States to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, with the aim of overcoming challenges posed by rapid technological developments, sustained high levels of youth unemployment, demographic changes and a growing demand for green skills.
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