Learning in a Global Age:
Knowledge and Skills for a Flat World
Asia Pacific Forum Report

Overview

The Asia-Pacific Forum on Education, held at the Grand Hotel Beijing, on November 14-17, 2006, brought together a multi-sector group of policy leaders and education innovators from Asia and the United States to discuss how to prepare students for a global age.  Participants, including Ministry officials, business and technology leaders, education innovators, and scholars engaged in focused discussions on today’s shared challenges and innovations in education worldwide.

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the Forum, which examined the need for world-class education standards, the importance of creating educational environments that foster talent and innovation, and the necessity of reducing inequity in educational provision and quality across countries.  Participants found many areas of agreement as well as areas where the future seemed less clear.  What is apparent is the magnitude of changes that are taking place and will occur across Asia and the United States and the urgent need to bring our schools out of the twentieth century.  Read more: English (entire report) or Mandarin (Executive summary only).

Presentations

Scientific and Technical Skills for the Global Economy

Andreas Schleicher:  Using Education as a Lever to Compete

Increasing Quality and Expanding Access to Primary and Secondary Education

Wang Dinghua: Curriculum Reform in the Knowledge Economy

Ujwal Thakar:  Strategies for Raising Achievement in India: The Pratham Experience

He Jin:  Rural-Urban Migration: Educating the Children

Higher Education and Lifelong Learning

Alan Ruby: Meeting the Demand for Human Capital

Okhwa Lee: The Future of Higher Education in Korea

Arthur Li: Higher Education and Lifelong Learning in Hong Kong

Antonio Inocentes: The Future of Higher Education in the Philippines

Other Presentations:

Liu Chuansheng: The Future of Universities in China

Mike Smith: The Old and the New: An Education Revolution

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Background Materials

"Elevating Performance in a Flat World," article by Andreas Schleicher, Education Week, January 4, 2007 (Log-in may be required)

“Education and the Knowledge Economy in Europe and Asia”, Andreas Schleicher and Karine Tremblay, Challenge Europe, European Policy Centre, September 2006

World Bank Selected Development Indicators 2006

Measuring Up Internationally, Alan Wagner, National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, September 2006

“The Next Economy”, Joseph E. McCann, BizEd, March/April 2006

Math and Science Education in a Global Age, Asia Society, May 2006

“Innovation: New National Strategy of China”, Vice Minister Shang Yong, Presentation from the Levin Institute’s Conference on Industrial Innovation in China, 2006

Press Materials

Press Releases

AP Forum Report Press Release (To Come)

Download AP Forum Meeting Press Release (PDF)

Press Coverage

Thomas Friedman, New York Times: Learning to Keep Learning, December 13, 2006

Forum Hunts Ways to Advance Education, China Daily, November 15, 2006

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