How on earth will we create the next Steve Jobs? Matching demand
in the education system. A child that begins primary school this
year will not finish their working life until around 2075. It is
hard to imagine what society will be like then: the only
certainty during his or her life will be change. Two skills that
are essential to be able to succeed in an uncertain world are
creativity and resilience. Labour introduced reforms to give
more freedoms to schools, giving heads and teachers the space to
foster creativity and resilience. While many schools have taken
advantage of this, at a system-wide level schools, colleges and
universities can be doing more to promote these skills, and the
Government should be encouraging this, not stifling it. One of
the challenges is that our education system was founded on an
Enlightenment belief that a core of so-called “academic”
subjects are somehow superior to practical, vocational or
creative skills. This conceptual hierarchy has been codified in
the Government’s “EBac”