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6.0 Conclusion

I hope that I’ve provided a brief but wide-ranging overview
of the transformation occurring at every level of education.
There’s a lot of activity and excitement in the educational world
at the moment and much interest in how and at what pace this
transformation will be realised and what it will prioritise. I believe
that widening out our engagement to think about education
in terms of the whole of society over entire life-spans is what
is really needed. If you think through the impact of educational
transformation on society, it’s about providing an educational
process that meets the needs of society as a whole. That involves
thinking holistically about the future of the school and the university
and about their integration into learning-centered communities,
or even learning-centered cities.
To conclude I’ll turn to The Cox Review, which was published
at the end of 2005. Sir George Cox, Head of the Design Council,
was asked to look at the future of the UK economy, at what will
help maintain our economic position in the world. His findings
were that the future of the UK’s economy will not be reliant on the
provision of goods or even services but on innovation and creativity.
So the real issue that perhaps we should all be addressing now is
how we can create an educational system that embraces those
core values of innovation and creativity and promotes them at
every level from cradle to grave.

So the real issue that perhaps
we should all be addressing
now is how we can create an
educational system that embraces
those core values of innovation and
creativity and promotes them at
every level from cradle to grave.

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