Waking up to a hung parliament is a strange experience; feelings of uncertainty mix with a sense of hopefulness for a new direction. Either way, the British electorate has sent a message for this General Election – that all parties need to work harder to gain a unanimous vote ofContinue Reading
So it happened: workplace 2020 is only 2.5 years away – a blink of an eye in terms of how futurists see things. This is what came to mind after seeing the much discussed article about the 10 skills needed to survive the Fourth Industrial Revolution, initially published in JanuaryContinue Reading
American trend research company Pew Research has been publishing warning signs since 2008, with its seminal paper:When Bad Times Hit the Good Life in which it demonstrates how increasingly large numbers of middle income people in that country were not making economic progress: if anything, they were falling behind. Years later, Pew releasedContinue Reading
Our education system and working systems are deeply connected: the way we shape one impacts the other. In the same way that the coming ‘new industrial revolution’ caused by the Age of Automation will change what education needs to look like, it will also cause us to think very differentlyContinue Reading
As someone with an interest in learning and social mobility I read the new research conducted by the London School of Economics for the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission with great interest. The report rightly highlights the differences that exist between how children from wealthy backgrounds are educated versus thoseContinue Reading
Since the launch of a report in the Harvard Business Review in 2016 that showed the ways in which some diversity programmes have failed at increasing the actual numbers of successful hires from diverse backgrounds, there has been an ongoing debate regarding whether corporates need to rethink their approach toContinue Reading