The Rewired Summit discusses the basic skills needed to face changes

Expo.. 85% of jobs will disappear.. so what skills do our children need

• The summit is an important step for creating a new future.

  Emirates today

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The activities of the Rewired Education Summit will be launched during the “Expo 2020 Knowledge and Education Week”, the fifth week of the topics organized by the international event during its convening period.

The summit will be held at the Dubai Exhibition Center for a period of three days (until December 14), to highlight the importance of ensuring universal access to education, and the need to modernize education for a prosperous and sustainable future. The summit will also discuss ways to address the main barriers to communication between all parties to reach the goals. desired.

This came during a media briefing held yesterday at the Expo Media Center, in the presence of the Vice President of Communications, "Expo 2020 Dubai", Muhammad Al-Ansari, and the director of the "Rewired" platform, Annina Matson.

Mattson said: “The summit is part of the Rewired platform that brings together actors from all over the world to collectively address education challenges by exploring new approaches in line with the variables of the modern era, and providing an opportunity for participants to agree on a common vision and concrete actions. This summit is the most prominent educational event of the year.”

She added: "I really believe that this summit is an important step to bring together people from different countries and cultures to create a new future, and the timing in which we hold is important to rebuild our societies after the (Corona) pandemic, and I see (Expo) as the perfect place to push forward work towards this matter." More than 100 sessions will be held, 400 speakers from 70 countries will be hosted, and we will focus on three thematic axes: youth skills and the future of work, innovation, education and education financing.

And she continued: “The ratios, announced by the World Economic Forum, indicate that 85% of the jobs we know today will disappear within 15 years, so what do we teach our children for?

And what skills do they need?

This is a concern for parents, and it is a concern for most of the developing world and low-income countries, where the education crisis has been very large and prolonged.”

As for the situation with regard to the reality imposed by the “Covid-19” pandemic, she said: “We have 450 million children out of school, and they do not have the skills required to face the changes that have occurred in the world, and the percentage of children at the age of 10 who cannot read, reaches 53. percent in low-income countries.

Mattson stressed, during her speech, the importance of teaching future generations the basic skills to face changes, to be armed with them after they finish school. What they really need are critical thinking skills, flexibility towards change, and the ability to adapt and solve problems.

She also confirmed that the aim of the summit is to hold such talks in a global platform such as "Expo 2020 Dubai", as a neutral platform that invites everyone to be part of this conversation, "because education is the basis for everything we strive to achieve in our societies, whether to address the effects of Climate change, or the effects of a global health crisis like the one the whole world is currently experiencing.”

Rewired is a global platform launched by Dubai Cares, in partnership with Expo 2020 Dubai, and in coordination with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, to serve as a catalyst for redefining education to ensure a sustainable, innovative and accessible future for all.

• 450 million children out of school do not have the skills required to face the changes that have occurred in the world.

• 53% of children under 10 years old, in low-income countries, cannot read.

• The Rewired Summit focuses on skills, the future, innovation, education and education financing.