Plenary V: Re-Designing Education Systems: What Skillsets for the Jobs of Tomorrow

Unemployment and underemployment rates among youth have dramatically increased in the past decade in Africa. The current education system often fails to provide its youth with adequate skills, even at the most basic level. • What are the skills needed in the new technological age? How can children and youth develop them? • Should emphasis be put on ICT and digital understanding and fluency? • What is the role of technical and vocational education? • What can be learnt from success cases in the South? • Can the education system be reformed from within or does it require an externally driven radical overhaul?