Rethinking Education: Skills-First Future for Lifelong Learning

A 'Skills-First' Future isn't about 'who you know' or where you went to college.
It's about:
🧴 'Common Sense'.
🔎 Competency before credentials.
🧰 Rethinking academic requirements to broaden talent pools.
🧠 Recognising the skills that are most durable. (and human).
🔥 Digital transition based on rich operational context/knowledge.

The bottlenecks that hurt industry most are the human ones - when tacit knowledge fails to transfer, data silo's stay shut and talent lies hidden. Our report sets a roadmap for human feedback loops to be clear and short; reducing 'noise' for lifelong learners to thrive.

Join Engineering Skillnet and Engineering Industries Ireland on May 22nd
1 pm for the launch of our report or DM for a copy.

Ann Clarkin Michael Ryan Aisling Soden Malcolm Jeffers Mike Hourigan Nicky Mullen Carmel Keane Mairead Rattigan Darran Roche Donough McGrath Mary Jo P. John O'Connell John McNamara Clare Caulfield Pauline O Flanagan Michelle Quain Sinead Keogh Trish Breen

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