While at a world summit on education policy in New Zealand this spring, I realised that we are not alone. Other countries are facing similar challenges to us – how to raise standards of education and compete in the global race; how to prepare children and young people for a world which will be very different, in ways we can barely envisage, from the one we inhabit today.
The summit (the fourth such), organised jointly by Educational International and the Organisation for Economic and Co-operative Development (OECD), is unique because union delegations meet education ministers, sit down with them and talk on an equal basis. I met teachers from a wide range of countries, listened to their experiences and heard speeches from other nations’ education ministers.
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