Undergraduates at the University of Hong Kong in Pok Fu Lam, seen on September 18. With an estimated one in two jobs set to be taken over by automation and artificial intelligence, universities need to change the way they prepare undergraduates for employment. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Opinion
Opinion
Want creative self-starters? Free Hong Kong youths from the classroom
- To better prepare the city’s young people for a brave new, technologically different world, education needs to change, starting with experiential, out-of-classroom self-learning
Undergraduates at the University of Hong Kong in Pok Fu Lam, seen on September 18. With an estimated one in two jobs set to be taken over by automation and artificial intelligence, universities need to change the way they prepare undergraduates for employment. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Opinion
SCMP Columnist
My Take
Education reform another lesson in failure
- All that talk about creativity, play-to-learn, and balanced lifestyles is just a lot of empty sloganeering when vested interests run their own shows with government cash