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Curriculum is 'failing to prepare students for digital revolution'

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With fears that the digital revolution will mean the loss of up to 15 million UK jobs in the coming years, a report by Lord Kenneth Baker argues that our national curriculum is failing to prepare young people for this challenge. Pete Henshaw takes a look

“Every day, jobs are being lost in professions we used to regard as careers for life.”

This stark warning has been issued by the architect of the national curriculum Lord Kenneth Baker, who has this week raised his concern about the huge impact that the digital revolution will have on the jobs market in the coming years.

Lord Baker says that the UK’s future workforce will need technical expertise and key skills to survive as technology and artificial intelligence take over millions of lower skilled, routine jobs.

His warning comes in a new report, entitled The Digital Revolution: The impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on employment and education, in which he outlines an eight-point action plan (see below) that calls for a radical overhaul of our approach in mainstream schools.

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