As Sarah O'Connor (FT) points out when we think about the future of specific jobs/professions (in the face of technological change) we need to factor in what she calls "anticipatory obsolescence' - the tendency of your people to look at the prospective future & shape their educational paths on that basis;

thinking a certain job has no future reduces the incentive to train for it & in a sense becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as skilled practitioners decline....

#workers #skills #education

As Lou Doyle observes, whatever we think of recent pronouncements & proposals from Andy Burnham on skilled education....

'Nobody should expect a devolved skills strategy to undo a class-coded hierarchy that’s taken decades to settle. It will fail if we once again place the solutions to broader societal challenges on the shoulders of teachers'!

Spot on: once again it blames the victims for class-based structural inequality!

#politics #class #skills #education

https://feweek.co.uk/burnham-parity-of-esteem-starts-with-pay-not-pathways/