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One of the world’s foremost education policy makers has encouraged teachers and education officials to focus on building students’ skills and the ability to solve problems, rather than just focussing on basic knowledge to boost education in the region.
“Skills have become the single most important driver of the success of individuals and nations,” said Andreas Schleicher, deputy director for education and skills and special adviser on education policy to the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). “The single most important finding from our analysis is in fact that the knowledge economy no longer pays you for what you know. Google knows everything these days. The knowledge economy pays you for what you can do with what you know.”
Schleicher oversees the administration of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) test and is widely regarded as the foremost authority on improving education around the world. The Pisa test results are widely seen as a measure of how a nation is likely to fare in the knowledge economy.
Schleicher, who is also on the Global Advisory Board of the Varkey GEMS Foundation, was speaking to over 200 teachers, and leaders of GEMS Education, as well as media and local officials. In a keynote speech in which he discussed the latest results for Pisa, Schleicher offered concrete advice on the importance of quality learning.
Dubai, which was the sole emirate in the UAE to take part in the test, showed marked improvement again this year, while highlighting that much more still needs to be done to boost children’s readiness.
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