Jobs & Skills
Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown on combating global illiteracy (Bloomberg – video)
Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown discusses his funding plan to combat global illiteracy with Bloomberg’s Shery Ahn on “Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power.” Watch the video...Sharing the future by building better education systems (Brookings)
From the article: William Gibson, the lauded science fiction novelist, is credited with the saying: “The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” Like far too many other profound and attributed quotes, no one seems to be able to pin down whether...Education, a Building Block for Sustainable Peace (IPSNews)
(Above: Commissioner Ju-Ho Lee speaks with Global Partnership for Education CEO Alice Albright during the opening panel of the High-level SDG Action Event on Education at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on June 28, 2017) From the article: UNITED NATIONS,...Aceleremos el progreso educativo (El País)
From the article on El País: Enfrentamos retos formidables. La población mundial aumentará en más de 2 mil millones de personas hacia 2050 y debemos ser capaces de garantizar mejores condiciones de vida para más personas, particularmente en los países en vías de...The key to innovating education in Africa will be to fix its financing (Quartz)
From the article: Africa is at risk of losing a generation of 21st century workers and job creators. If current trends continue, Africa will be home to one billion young people by 2050 but one-third of them will not be able to complete basic secondary education. For...UN envoy: No jobs for millions without new education funds (Associated Press)
From the article: UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. special envoy for education warned Wednesday that years of neglect have left 260 million children out of school and another 400 million functionally illiterate — and if a better way isn’t found to finance education more than...Companies are complaining about the skills gap. Here’s how we get closer to solving it. (Huffington Post)
For most of us, the traditional notion of the “American Dream” – and what it symbolizes in countries around the world – begins with hard work and education and leads to opportunity and a flourishing future. However, in our ever-evolving global economy, the opportunities my generation had are so much more elusive for today’s college-age students and young professionals, many of whom are saddled with debt and ill-equipped to launch careers to set themselves up for a successful future.
Education for all is not possible without employers
Leila Toplic, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at LRNG We live in a time of learning abundance, with more access to knowledge and technological innovation than ever before. Yet we are confronted by incredible inequality because learning in the 21st...Investing in the #LearningGeneration – Medium Bright
Half of today’s jobs will be automated by 2050. HALF. Read more from the conversation on Medium’s Bright blog.