The Value of Knowledge is a Financial Times multimedia series on how to meet the world’s changing knowledge needs. It explores the skills, education and investment strategies that will prove critical to global sustainable growth. With reporting from specialist FT journalists and the insights of leading learning experts, the series also includes original research from Credit Suisse on the ‘multiplier’ effect of education and the role impact investing can play.
Warming oceans, shrinking ice sheets, and rising sea levels are just a few of the irrevocable signs of climate change, most of which have been caused by human activity.
Many people fear the advance of AI and automation, but innovation expert Charles Leadbeater believes we should be more concerned about an education system creating second-rate robots, rather than first-rate humans.
Philanthropy alone won’t help reach the UN’s SDGs. If profit and purpose attended the same school and collaborated more closely, significant amounts of vital capital could be unlocked to help educate millions of children.
Can you assign a value to knowledge? Leading thinkers, dignitaries and entrepreneurs share personal messages on key matters surrounding the power of education.
Keeping girls in the classroom makes economic sense. The failure of women to finish school costs more than $15tn worldwide in lost lifetime productivity and earnings. But as the FT’s Andrew Jack explains, even simple measures, such as providing uniforms a
Indonesia has one of the world’s largest but lowest performing education systems. Two young tech entrepreneurs are helping solve the learning crisis through their technology platform Ruangguru - tipped to be the country’s first edtech unicorn
Funding is often the barrier to higher education for students from emerging economies. Prodigy Finance is breaking down borders in student loan financing through their unique fintech powered credit model, allowing gifted students to be placed at the best
No teachers. No fees, and no qualifications needed. Codam is an unorthodox coding college designed to address educational inequality, and a shortage of tech professionals. The FT’s Harriet Agnew goes to Amsterdam to meet Codam’s founder and funder, one of
Roger Federer swaps the tennis court for the playground to serve quality early learning programmes to over one million children in Southern Africa and Switzerland. His Foundation goes far beyond delivering books to the classroom, putting the community at
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