2. 7. 7. 4. 7. 7. 7. 4. 4. 7. 7. 4. 10. 7. 4. 8. 7. 4. 8. 8. 7. 4. 8. 4. 6. 7. 4. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. 6. 4. 3. 8. 4. 4. 7. 7. 6. 4. 6. 4. 4. 4. 4. 8. 8. 8. 8. 4. 4. 6. The Future of Skills. John Fallon, CEO, Pearson Weve just commissioned a major piece of academic research to look at what the world of employment looks like in 2. Laurie Forcier, Director, Global Thought Leadership, Pearson So theres a real debate, particularly in the UK, about whats more important knowledge or skills. And so one of the real exciting things about this research is that it provides an underpinning based on the research that proves positive that it is the combination of knowledge and skills together that will be important and that will serve learners, and workers, well in the future. Geoff Mulgan, CEO, Nesta Theres a huge amount of fear, anxiety and uncertainty about what can happen to jobs in the next few years. People are worried that waves of automation might sort of destroy their life opportunities so it seemed important to get greater clarity on what we could expect, what the implications should be for schools, for governments, or for individuals, teenagers perhaps themselves in terms of planning their lives and that had to be more detailed, more granular, more analytical about what is knowable, as well as clear about what things we cant know because they are just by their nature uncertain. Your favorite technology company, Google, is working on an upcoming feature that could put the kibosh on autoplaying videos for good. Soon youll be able to silence. Helping you find what you need to know about education in New Zealand. An education web portal provided by the New Zealand Ministry of Education. Management Strategy development. Become a better manager, improve your management skills and learn more about strategy and management development. The conversation about the future of jobs and skills is one of the most important in education. Pearsons research combines human expertise with the power of machine. The main findings of this report are really about what we can expect, and they show that, yes, there are likely to be big effects of automation on some parts of the workforce, some jobs could if not disappear, see fairly dramatic reductions in numbers. It also shows some parts of the labor market are highly likely to see significant growth, perhaps some slightly surprising parts of the labor market like many public sector jobs in teaching, or healthcare and in private services fields like hotels, hospitality, food and so on, are highly likely to grow. Theres then a big group in the middle where you simply cant be certain what is going to happen to those jobs but probably, one of the messages of this report is well see new redefinitions of jobs so some jobs will remain in some respects the same but have to learn new skills including skills perhaps of using AI, robots, etcetera to enhance their work rather than replacing the work. And that can be everything from cleaning jobs, to legal jobs to civil service jobs to managerial jobs, to engineering jobs, are not likely to disappear but they are equally unlikely to remain exactly as they are. Laurie Forcier, Director, Global Thought Leadership, Pearson The future of jobs and skills is one of the most important conversations in education. Our systems currently, right now for the most part, arent prepared to get people ready for whats coming, particularly as people increasingly will be called on to work alongside smarter, digital tools and will be asking them to emphasize more the aspects and the attributes and the skills and the knowledge and the abilities that make them more human. John Fallon, CEO, Pearson There are a number of groups that need to be paying attention to research like this. Pearson does, it needs to shape everything that we are investing in and all the products and services we are developing in partnership with others. Universities need to be paying attention. Schools and school boards need to be paying attention, parents need to be thinking about this, employers need to be paying attention everyone whos involved in shaping the world of jobs, economic opportunity needs to be thinking hard and long, and more importantly they need to be acting on what this study is telling us. We forecast that only one in five workers are in occupations that will shrink. This figure is much lower than recent studies of automation have suggested. Occupations related to agriculture, trades and construction, which in other studies have been forecast to decline, exhibit more interesting and heterogeneous patterns with our research, suggesting that there may be pockets of opportunity throughout the skills ladder. Dear student, Welcome to SKILLS, written specifically for your vocational programme. SKILLS covers the full 5hour course in English at the Vg1 and Vg2 levels of. We forecast that only one in ten workers are in occupations that are likely to grow. These jobs are in sectors such as education and healthcare, where the overriding effect of technology is likely to be an improvement in outcomes, not a reduction in workforce. Therefore, as trends such as demographic change raise demand for these services, the prospect for employment is also likely to rise. We forecast that seven in ten workers are in jobs with where there is greater uncertainty about the future. However, contrasting the negative outlook of other research, our finding indicate that we can do a great deal to help people prepare for the future. Our findings rank knowledge areas, skills, and abilities that will be in greater demand in the future. These findings, if implemented by educators and employers, can help individuals better prepare for the workforce of the future. See Implications for more information on the skills that will be in demand, by occupation group. Although there is already broad understanding that 2. In the US, there is particularly strong emphasis on interpersonal skills. These skills include teaching, social perceptiveness, service orientation, and persuasion. Our findings also confirm the importance of higher order cognitive skills such as complex problem solving, originality, fluency of ideas, and active learning. In the UK, skills related to systems oriented thinking i. See the Glossary of Skills for more information on how each of the skills, knowledge areas, and abilities is defined. Our research definitively shows that both knowledge and skills will be required for the future economy. In our US results, knowledge and skills are fairly equally represented in the top half of all features we ranked according to predicted future demand. In the UK results, the ranking leans more towards skills than knowledge, but not by a wide margin. Occupations and their skill requirements are not set in stone. Occupations can be re designed to pair uniquely human skills with the productivity gains from technology to boost demand for jobs. For example, we know that eventually robots will be able to build bridges and diagnose diseases. But humans will retain the unique ability to engineer a bridge and care for a sick child. How we balance those skills with technology productivity will chart the course of our workforce.