The Global Search for Education: A Global Checklist for Innovating Learning
Jul09

The Global Search for Education: A Global Checklist for Innovating Learning

Over 1.2 billion children have been out of the classroom since COVID-19 closed schools globally.

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The Global Search for Education: Are the Kids Doing Well in the Digital Age?
Nov06

The Global Search for Education: Are the Kids Doing Well in the Digital Age?

What is it like to be a child in 2019? A new OECD report, “Educating 21st-Century Children: Emotional Well-Being in the Digital Age,” says that while better support for physical and mental health has improved modern children’s lives, access to tablets and smartphones before you learn to walk and talk has consequences, good and not so good.

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We Can Overcome All Our Global Challenges if We are Willing to Build and Scale New Models for Lifelong Learning
May22

We Can Overcome All Our Global Challenges if We are Willing to Build and Scale New Models for Lifelong Learning

  The OECD’s Learning Compass 2030, launched today, urges nations to take action and reevaluate the knowledge, life skills, values and attitudes learners need to flourish and contribute to the well-being of their communities and their planet. Experts have argued that global education systems have not changed in hundreds of years and that a factory model no longer works. Whether we’re talking about the 265 million children...

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The Global Search for Education: How Employers Help Children Design their Futures
May07

The Global Search for Education: How Employers Help Children Design their Futures

Understanding the reality of the working world becomes clearer the more times a young person interacts with the world of work.” – Nick Chambers    The future will be about pairing the cognitive, social and emotional capabilities of human beings with machines. The ‘Drawing the Future’ report (a collaboration between the OECD and the UK based charity, Education and Employers) was published in Davos this year. It featured...

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The Global Search for Education: The Health and Well-Being of Young Immigrants
Jul11

The Global Search for Education: The Health and Well-Being of Young Immigrants

“The focus of the report is not only on students’ academic achievement but also their social, emotional and motivational well-being.” – Francesca Borgonovi Diversity has always been at the heart of human progress. Data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) reveals an estimated 4.8 million immigrants arrived at OECD countries in 2015, an increase of about 10% over the previous year, with...

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