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WHAT'S NEXT?: Education will increasingly be online, just-in-time and competence-based. VR will become more mainstream in education technology. The vision of easily accessible learning will be enormously powerful and widespread in a few years. The global artificial intelligence market in the education sector will grow exponentially and post an impressive CAGR of over 39% by 2020.

[New] In addition to learning continuity programs, Ukraine could consider supporting just-in-time student assessments to measure the extent of learning losses and identify the students who have fallen behind and may need additional targeted support to catch up.
[New] International students, soured by being turned away from Australian opportunities, may well find more accessible education facilities elsewhere in the world, such as Canada, the United States and the UK.
[New] New Yorkers currently working in the illegal market will have an opportunity to obtain one of ten different licenses to work in the new cannabis economy, which is projected to bring in $350 million in taxes each year as well as create 30,000 to 60,000 jobs statewide.
[New] Other countries need to accelerate their investment and learn from China and Singapore else risk being left in the monetary dark ages.
[New] The Western Australia Department of Education has begun the first step in a process that will allow Noongar language to be formally taught in schools, just as Asian and European languages are.
[New] Because internet access will remain essential for education, employment, and government service provision well beyond the current crisis, it is time to build broadband better-elevating universal service provision to a national commitment for all Americans.
[New] No, because Chinese firms fear losing market share to other countries, and because China's economic ethos prizes not profit maximization but social stability, steady production growth, and cost reductions through learning and new technologies.
[New] The risk is real not only for Lebanese families, more half of whom live in poverty, but also for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and Syrian refugees who already struggled to access education before Lebanon's multifold crisis made it more difficult.
[New] Leveraging digital technologies and innovations in the education sector will not only improve quality of teaching and learning processes but also massively increase access to affordable education by millions of Nigerians.
[New] Microsoft's experiments with a data center that spent two years underwater have provided a further understanding of how data centers might be more reliably managed based on different gas blends and limited human interaction.
[New] Biden's American Jobs Plan, which emerges over a decade later, during which the world has learned much, much more about how urgent the climate crisis actually is, would spend roughly $125 billion on a range of clean energy programs each year for eight years.
[New] China's measures to support new types of consumption will drive flexible employment and more technological innovation within the online education sector.
[New] More routes into a variety of skilled jobs and a wider definition of skill will benefit UK society and particularly the less affluent who have not all benefited from the great expansion in higher education.
[New] A 67% cut to UK aid there could remove education from 350,000 children, leaving over 115,000 mothers and children under the age of five without nutrition support and providing 1.9 million fewer medical consultations, amongst reduced support in a host of other areas.
[New] Next month, Biden is expected to roll out plans for additional trillions to be spent on healthcare, education, housing, and more.
[New] The European Commission has adopted the first annual work programme and launched calls for the 2021-27 iteration of the EU's Erasmus + mobility scheme, which funds students, teachers and other groups to undertake study and training abroad, as well as supporting higher education more generally.
[New] Spaniards were exempt from paying tribute, Spanish men had access to higher education, could hold civil and ecclesiastical offices, were subject to the Inquisition, and liable for military service when the standing military was established in the late eighteenth century.
Education, high cost, poor outcome education is one of the greatest taxes on opportunity and equality in the United States.
Boosting young children's skills through investments in summer learning in 2021 may be more important than ever before because of the significant disruptions in early care and education most children have experienced.
From education and remote learning, to health care, agriculture, e-commerce, and small businesses - it is clear that infrastructure investments create more than just a connection to the internet; they create opportunities for people to connect to the rest of the world.
As a Learning & Work Institute reported recently, on current trajectories Northern Ireland stands to lag further behind on learning and skills and could have the fourth highest proportion of low qualified people out of 16 OECD countries by 2030.
Universities must convince governments and development agencies that higher education is not a luxury but an essential part of the education ecosystem needed to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Last updated: 07 April 2021

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