Challenges and Policy Recommendations This article is the executive summary of the 2015 WISE Research Report “K-12 Reform in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries“. Find out more about the 2015 WISE Research series. In an age of global connectivity in which knowledge and information are the currencies of individual success, education is among the best investments […]

The Economist published an article on 18 January 2014 titled “Coming to an office near you: the effect of today’s technology on tomorrow’s jobs will be immense – and no country is ready for it”. The Oxford University’s “The Future of Employment” study in 2013 predicts that 47% of today’s US jobs will cease to exist […]

More than a decade ago, when I was in charge of the strategy and policy units under Prime Minister Tony Blair, I lamented to a friend that some of the policies simply weren’t working.  The government had no shortage of educational policies.  But the ones aiming to re-engage disengaged teenagers showed little sign of any […]

Introducing creativity at school is as simple as redesigning the classroom layout or introducing real-world learning, writes Steven Anderson. Several months ago I was having a conversation with a colleague about creativity in learning. We debated back and forth about what creativity looked like and could you really teach creativity. All this stemmed from a comment I […]