🌍 Celebrating World Youth Skills Day

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Recognising the potential of young people as agents of peace on World Youth Skills Day

Every year, 15 July marks World Youth Skills Day that celebrates 'the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship'. This year, the focus is on Youth Skills for Peace and Development, highlighting 'the crucial role that young people play in peacebuilding and conflict resolution efforts'.

Look at the programme of the various events!

🎧 Podcast – Rethinking education with Nobel Prize winner, Carl Wieman

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How should teaching and learning evolve to meet the challenges of the 21st century?

In this new episode of our Skills Factory podcast series, we discuss with Carl Wieman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and professor at Stanford University, the future of education and the impact of artificial intelligence on learning.

  • What are the biggest challenges our education systems face?
  • Why are experiential learning and critical thinking important?
  • How should teaching look in the 21st century?
  • Why is it important for educators to motivate learners?

If you are curious about the evolution of education, this episode is for you! 

Listen here