EXCELLENCE IN UK EDUCATION OPTIMISM FOR THE FUTURE Commenting in the CBI's 2016 skills survey, Rod


Bristow, president of UK and core at Pearson Education, outlined his vision for the next phase of Brexit delivery. “The challenge now is to shape the future to ensure we remain outward-looking, inclusive and optimistic,” he said in the report. “Some said that the motivation to leave or to remain in the EU was a question of choice between concerns about the economy and immigration. While neither of those ‘lenses’ describes the more positive vision of an international and inclusive world, the skills agenda is central to all of the arguments. This year’s results [of the CBI skills survey] are striking in two key respects … Employers don’t just value what people know – they value what they can do.” Simone Lorenz-Weir, head of upper school at Oakham, a coeducational independent day and boarding school in Rutland for boys and girls aged from ten to 18, agrees. She believes that the IB offers the requisite skills. “The IB ticks so many boxes academically, but ultimately it is the skills the students learn that makes the programme so very desirable


to the international community,” she says. “If you would like your child to head out into the world knowledgeable and curious, as a great thinker and communicator who is open-minded yet also principled, who knows themselves and chooses to take risks where appropriate, and above all is caring to others, then the IB is certainly the right choice for your family.” Tim Jones would argue that an internationally minded learning environment allows students to develop the enquiring mind that is necessary to take those questions to the next level. “No one knows what the future holds. No one knows how sustainable the globalisation and digitisation of the world is,” he says. “All that appears to be certain is great uncertainty. That is why inculcating skills of inquiry, resilience and curiosity, as well as empathy and a tolerance of views not their own, represents for us the best preparation for bright, well-motivated young people.


“In light of Brexit,” he concludes, “our view is that education in the UK needs to become even more European in its outlook in order for our teenagers to prosper in an increasingly global community.”


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