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How to Educate in the Age of 4IR

02 March

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The 4IR marks a new period of rapid transition driven by technology. The amalgamation of automation, connectivity, artificial intelligence and robotics, is creating entire industries, sectors and careers, and leading others to vanish entirely. Indeed, it is estimated that automation will threaten more than 800m jobs worldwide by 2030.

Since the first industrial revolution over two hundred years ago, each leap in technology has changed the way we live and work. These paradigm shifts have led to higher living standards and productivity, driven economic growth and often helped extend life expectancy. However, to ensure that we gain the most opportunities from the 4IR, deliberate, considered and coordinated action to reinvent how we lean, train and work must be taken. 

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