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This report addresses one of the most urgent challenges facing the world – how to navigate potentially dramatic changes to jobs and skills in the decades ahead. It also offers solutions.
The project was done by a multinational team based at UCL, working in partnership with a2i in the Prime Minister’s office of Bangladesh.
It provides a detailed diagnosis of far-reaching shifts in labour markets already underway and likely to accelerate in the years ahead – some prompted by artificial intelligence and automation – and then turns to how better to prepare young people to navigate this world. It looks at emerging solutions around the world, from Australia and Singapore to Canada and Europe, and then shows how new tools can be developed to help young people make choices, whether in schools or universities, building on the impressive work Bangladesh has already done with its NISE platform.
By the end of the decade, every country will need an infrastructure not dissimilar to what is set out here: a capacity to map and forecast trends in jobs and skills demand, making the most of available data; a capacity to adjust the provision of courses and curriculums in response, so that young people are prepared for the world of the near future not the world of the past; and easy to use navigation tools to guide young people’s choices, allowing them to better understand their own capabilities and their options.
I hope the report stimulates and inspires others. I also hope that it will avert the fatalism which treats changes of this kind as only facts of nature to which we have to be passive observers.
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