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Empowering Students Aspirational education & creating tomorrow’s digital citizens

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Page 1: Empowering Students - MENA Innovation 2020 · Empowering Students ... countries fare well in terms of student ... 75% in Egypt and even 200% for some workers in Baghdad? Looking to

Empowering StudentsAspirational education & creating tomorrow’s digital citizens

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Four Global Trends

• Globalisation

• Digitalisation

• Aging population

• Migration

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91% of HR decision makers think that in the next 5 years, people will be recruited on their ability to deal with change and uncertainty?

Skills for employability Did you know that…

Of the total skills mentioned in online job ads, non technical skills represented 26%?

According to Linkedin 2018 & Manpower 2014, the top 5 skills employers look for are: • leadership skills 62%, • management skills 62%, • interpersonal skills 53%, • innovation and creativity 45%, • resilience 43%?

the following are jobs which DID NOT exist 5-10 years ago: UX manager, SEO specialist, Social media manager, Content marketeer, App designer, Online advertising manager, Cloud services specialist, Chief listening officer, digital risk officer, digital inclusion officer?

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Education & Employability Landscape in MENA Did you know that…

• Over the last decade, at least 500,000 MENA students have crossed a national or territorial border for the purpose of education & are now enrolled outside their country of origin? • The region will have to create over 100 million

jobs to employ the young men and women

joining the Arab states employment market?• In 2017, the number of universities in the

region rose to more than 500 universities, 9 million students, and 500,000 faculty members?

• The non public sector today account for at least 45% of HEI in the region?

• MENA countries when compared to other countries fare well in terms of student gender balance in higher education?

• The salary gap between similarly skilled

individuals with and without English is

considerable ranging from 5% in Tunisia to

75% in Egypt and even 200% for some

workers in Baghdad?

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Looking to the future

Empowered students

Impactful individuals

Employable individuals

Digital citizens

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Smart curriculumbalance a number of important outcomes

Impactful

Individual

Supporting Culture

Enabling Subjects

Core Subjects

Personal

qualities and

attributes

Strengthen areas such as

languages and soft skills

Increase rigour in traditional

core subjects

Broaden expectations against

curricular and non curricular

activities to foster values & and

behaviours for success in life

Better linkages between

academic & non-academic

environment

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1. Introduce policy mechanism that resists the inclusion of unnecessary

or unhelpful content; focuses on what is relevant to learners’ lives.

2. Deploy highly skilled technical professionals who are agile and flexible

to embrace the benefits of inter-disciplinary perspectives.

3. Coherent reforms (inc TOC)

4. Supporting culture

Policy Implications

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SMART Adoption of Technology

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1. Train, Train, Train

2. Baseline & evidence based decision making

3. Be infra-structure ready (cross-gov collaboration)

4. Put in place procedures or legislations for K-12 cyber security

management, cyber bullying management and screen time

management

Policy Implications

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Smart Pedagogy – Learning Oriented Assessment

learning

objectives

course Task

Teacher

observation

Interpretation

Record

Informal record

Teacher

decision-making

Feedback & modify

learning objectives

Structured

recordRecord of

achievement

Interpretation

External

exam

Language

activity

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1. Eliminate the divide between learning & assessment

2. Be clear on the uses of assessment & feedback

3. Enable personalised learning through

• embedding it in national strategies

• allocating investment budget to support schools in establishing personalised learning in their

culture

• publishing “personalised learning guides” to support school leaders & teachers in implementation

Policy Implications

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Four key takeaways

• Coherent reforms (with theory of change)

• Evidence based

• Learning oriented assessment

• Sustainability

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Thank you

cambridge.org/educationreform