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Training and employing youth, looking to the future
I’m heading off to the World Economic Forum in Davos to talk about training of young people, to me a major challenge that will have profound impacts upon the world we live in if we do not address it...
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Why we must close the education gap
How can the international community work together to educate the over 60 million children not in school, build the needed 4 million classrooms and train the necessary 2 million teachers? Watch The...
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The school of the future has no doors
Paolo Quattrone on how education is changing in the digital age. Think of a lecture in a traditional classroom at the beginning of the 20th century: Lines of (mainly) men seated on a huge lecture...
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Ideas @Davos: Unlocking education
The textbooks of the future will be digital, personalised and available to all, says Jose Ferreira. Education is the ultimate gateway problem. Whether the goal is to address dinner city poverty or...
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Wanted: 600 million workers
The future of the economy depends on getting people with the right skills to match the next generation of jobs, says Bradford L. Smith. We stand in the midst of a global economic tragedy. Around the...
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Who is responsible for training today’s workforce?
The need to prepare talent for the fast-changing world of work is a top priority for companies focused on meeting their business goals for 2013. Yet, training today’s talent to take on new roles in...
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Education needs a Bill Gates
Pauline Rose addresses the need for new investment in education There should be little need to make the business case for education. It is intrinsically tied to all positive development outcomes....
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Imagining the universities of the future
We will see increasingly creative partnerships between for-profit entities and traditional universities, writes Linda Lorimer, Vice-President of Yale University. We often hear references to “the”...
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A creative future for education
Tim Brown discusses how creativity has an essential role in education It was good to see a strong focus on education at Davos this year. There seems to be a growing realization that basic issues such...
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Can art schools create a bright future?
After completing my Ph.D. in literature decades ago, I was ready for a big change. I tried journalism and several other professions, and eventually found my way back to the academy but this time to an...
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The role of social entrepreneurs
The expansion of social services in developing countries offers the greatest opportunity for social entrepreneurs to create systemic change. In the world of social entrepreneurship, emphasis is placed...
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Brown’s world
Five days after the World Economic Forum ‘s Annual Meeting in Davos, here I am at Twitter headquarters in relatively balmy San Francisco, attending the Global Education & Technology Forum co-hosted...
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