We want schools to prepare children for the future. But we do not know what it will look like.

THERE IS considerable pressure on schools to prepare young people better for “real life”. It is a reasonable criticism and one which schools should take seriously. Two issues in particular have dominated the discussion recently.

The first is vocational education. Andy Burnham has been the most prominent voice arguing that we need to rebalance an education system which has placed too much emphasis on academic qualifications and university, and give young people greater access to technical and vocational education. The second issue is AI literacy. This is something I have been interested in over recent years. Schools have a responsibility to prepare pupils for a world in which artificial intelligence will be ubiquitous. Young people need to understand how it works, how to use it well, where it goes wrong and when to not use it at all.

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