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Half of the world's jobs – around 2 billion – are expected to disappear due to automation by 2030.ġ See for example Frey, Carl Benedikt and Michael A. Today’s generation of young people faces a radically changing world. This report proposes the largest expansion of educational opportunity in history and outlines the reforms and increased financial investment required to achieve it. Based on research from the Education Commission, this vision is achievable within a generation if all countries accelerate their progress to that of the world’s top 25 percent fastest improvers in education. Indeed, it is possible to ensure that all children and youth are in school and learning the skills they need to be successful in work and life. The costs of this learning crisis – unemployment, poverty, inequality and instability – could undermine the very fabric of our economies and societies.īut there is a better vision for the future of global education and young people. If current trends continue, by 2030 – the date the international community has set for attaining quality secondary education for all – less than 10 percent of young people in low-income countries will be on track to gain basic secondary level skills. The pathway to growth for developing economies will depend less on traditional forms of export-led growth and more on education-led growth.Īnd yet the world today is facing a global learning crisis. The valuation of companies will depend more on human capital than physical capital. Economies will rise or fall depending more on their intellectual resources than their physical resources.

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