The challenges of the future - globalisation, climate, technological and demographic change - require a different response from our education system.
We need to equip future generations not only with strong basic skills and specialist technical knowledge, but with the attitudes and wider skills to generate radical new solutions and adapt to our rapidly changing world.
We need to provide future generation with the skills for innovation to a greater degree than ever before: the confidence and insight to generate a novel idea or new approach; the motivation, commitment and resilience to pursue that idea; the leadership, energy and dynamism to communicate their vision to others and drive it forward from concept to reality.
For these skills to have currency in education we need to be able to identify and measure them. We're working with Kingston University on understanding how this can be done.
Published
July 2009
Author
Professor Elizabeth Chell and Rosemary Athayde, Kingston University
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