Shaping, not predicting, the future of students

by Anthony MannSenior Analyst, Directorate for Education and SkillsFootballer Cristiano Ronaldo is reputed to have once said that there’s no point making predictions because nothing is set in stone. It is hard to predict the future, but in education policy at least it is not altogether impossible.We know, for example, from data accumulated over many years that people who exhibited certain attributes...

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Succeeding with resilience – Lessons for schools

by Johanna Boersch-SupanDirector, Vodafone Germany Foundation – think tank Digitisation is expected to profoundly change the way we learn and work – at a faster pace than previous major drivers of transformation. Many children entering school today are likely to end up working in jobs that do not yet exist. Preparing students for these unchartered territories means that we not only have to make...

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Learning for careers: The career pathways movement in the United States

by Nancy Hoffman, Senior Advisor, Jobs for the FutureBob Schwartz, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of EducationOver the last generation, it has become clear that something has gone awry in how the United States prepares its young people for life. In spite of millions of young people pursuing university education, fewer than one in three young Americans successfully attain a bachelor’s...

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How to prepare students for the complexity of a global society

by Anthony Jackson, Director, Center for Global Education at Asia SocietyAndreas Schleicher, Director, Directorate for Education and SkillsIn all countries, rapidly changing global economic, digital, cultural, and environmental forces are shaping young people’s lives and their futures. From Boston to Bangkok to Buenos Aires, we live today in a VUCA world: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.The...

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Drawing the future: What children want to be when they grow up

by Andreas SchleicherDirector, Directorate for Education and SkillsThe next generation of children will need to create jobs, not just seek jobs. They will draw on their curiosity, imagination, entrepreneurship and resilience, the joy of failing forward. Their schools will help them discover their passions and aspirations, develop their potential, and find their place in society.But that is easier...

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What does teaching look like? A new video study

by Anna PonsAnalyst, Directorate for Education and SkillsLooking – literally – at how teachers around the world teach can be a game changer to improve education. The evidence is clear that teachers are what makes the greatest difference to learning, outside students’ own backgrounds. It is widely recognised that the quality of an education system is only as good as the quality of its teachers. Yet...

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