Global leaders have one last chance to avert an “education catastrophe”, Gordon Brown has said, as research suggests that young Britons are more worried about their future than their peers across the world.
A survey of 10,000 young people in ten countries, conducted to coincide with the UN Education Summit in New York, found frustration with outdated teaching methods, old-fashioned curriculums and a lack of digital connectivity, leaving students without the skills to navigate today’s world.
Forty-seven per cent of British respondents aged 16 to 30 said they did not feel equipped for the future, more than in Nicaragua, Nigeria and Indonesia and the same as in Honduras. The results reflect what experts are calling “a crisis of equity, quality and relevance” in global education.
