Skills, Robots and Learning (Education News and Research 156)

Wayne Gretzky and the modern economy | Modern workers need to anticipate where the economic puck is going by focusing on the skills robots can’t replace…

Investing in the People of Europe and Central Asia Fadia Saadah | The Human Capital Project (HCP) is predicated on the conviction that cognitive capital is critical…

Wasted talent | As many as half of Romania’s emigrants may be overqualified

Kosovo | MEST and World Bank satisfied with implementation of KESIP project | Representatives of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Baton Dushi from the Cabinet of Minister and Alush Istogu from the Department for Pre-University Education, held today a meeting with representatives of the World Bank, Angela Demas, Blerim Saqipi and Mrika Aliu, and discussed the progress of the KESIP project…

Modern Country Means Modern Education, Says Armenian President | President of Armenia” “If we speak of a modern country, we have to realize that modern country means modern education and high-level, educated specialists”…

Why is youth unemployment so high? | Education systems can help integrate youth into the labor market if they are of high quality…

«Мы отменили границы континентов и дисциплин» | “We abolished the borders of continents and disciplines”… Pavel Sorokin, Academic Director of the Evidence Education Policy Program, on a joint project with the World Bank | Perhaps, never before at any of the summer schools – no matter where they are held or whoever organizes them – I have not observed such a concentration of theoretical, methodological and applied knowledge…

School textbooks are on the way out? | Pearson shifts to Netflix-style subscription model for textbooks | Academic publisher hopes to convince students to pay to access online materials…

A Successful Reform: Improved Student Performance through Capacity Building | In 2006 Ontario, Canada realized that in nearly a fifth of the elementary schools in the province, more than half of students scored below the provincial standard in math, reading and writing. In response, the province invested in a program called the Ontario Focused Intervention Partnership. This program took a capacity building route. Rather than closing schools, replacing school leaders, sanctioning schools or mandating specific changes, Ontario designed a whole-school approach to building the professional capacity of educators to meet student learning needs, based on the assumption that each school’s very own educators are the force for change. As a result, 10 years later the number of under-performing elementary schools had dropped from nearly 800 to only 63. For more on how Ontario and other Canadian provinces have built world-class education systems, see CIEB’s Canada profile…