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Education for all

Education for all

How can educators ensure that every child in the world has access to a decent school?

Business Daily · BBC World Service

May 21, 201918m 11s

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Show Notes

How can educators ensure that every child in the world - and particularly every girl - has access to a decent school? And how should the curriculum prepare young people for a workplace about to be transformed by artificial intelligence?

Tanya Beckett hosts a debate in Dubai with Vikas Pota, chairman of the Varkey Foundation; Elizabeth Bintliff, chief executive of youth NGO Junior Achievement Africa; and Dr Amy Ogan, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Plus Tanya speaks to Peter Kabichi, a Kenyan monk and science teacher, who was the winner of this year's Global Teacher Prize awarded by the Varkey Foundation.

(Picture: Girl learning English in Lalibela, Ethiopia; Credit: hadynyah/Getty Images)