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Openhive Leadership Forum
Benedict Arora
11th June 2010
What is NESTA?
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
• Vision – of a creative and enterprising UK competing globally and responding to social challenges
• Endowed finance – independent, risk capital for experimentation
• Approach – think and do tank
• A long term view but with short term gains
• Mainstreaming what works
Types of activity
Innovation Index
Future growth sectors
Public sector innovation
The LAB - healthcareearly yearseducation
Creative economy
ICT, engineering and clean tech
Life sciences and health care
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1900 1950 2000 2050
Male life expectancy
Female life expectancy
Age
Things that keep us awake at night: Part I
Things that keep us awake at night: Part II
GDP $US Billionat 2003 $US value
Things that keep us awake at night: Part III
Technology
Growth in the number of Internet devices
Number of daily searches
number of users
millions
Implications for the future skills needs• Rapidly changing world places a premium on certain types of skills,
aptitudes and knowledge
• Creativity, energy, attitude to risk, self efficacy and leadership
• STEM, creative/digital and enterprise
• CBI members surveys consistently show mismatch supply and demand for skills
• Bigger deficit in “wider” skills than literacy and numeracy
• Deficit anticipated to grow
• Some sectors will grow faster than others
• Health and social care
• Hi-tech, bio-tech
• Creative and cultural economy
There are weaknesses in the education system…
• Schools main incentives focus on success within the narrow limits prescribed by the assessment regime
• Inspection does pick up on preparing young people for world of work – but are these standards sufficiently rigorous and weighted?
• Interesting experimentation taking place in some schools around wider skills development, but evidence from employers suggests this is not sufficiently widespread or systematic
• Curriculum delivery making some advances in uses of new techniques and technologies, but for systemic reasons remains behind the curve and is falling further behind
…but also scope for hope
Increasing demand from schools for new approaches to raising attainment
Growth in numbers of schools involving
students in school management and
curriculum delivery
Moves to loosen regulation in education will allow more scope for experimentation and innovation
NESTA’s education work
Exploring student leadership
• Room 13
• Lowestoft Energy Challenge, EcoDesign Challenge
• Partnership with SSAT on Student Voice
Exploring new approaches to the curriculum
• Leonardo Effect
• Teach First collaboration on STEM
Exploring the impact of choice on student aspiration and achievement
• iDiscover
Child of TodayA child born in 2009 will:
• live on average 15 years longer than a person born 50 years ago
But also –
• work till the age 68 (or the year 2077) • working on average 10-14 different jobs by the age of 38
• of which the most popular jobs are yet to even exist
• using technologies that people have yet to even imagine
• in a world where China is the world’s number 1 economy, with India 2nd, the U.S 3rd, and the UK ???
