If we are honestly going to confront the major education and employment challenges we face today and in the next ten years, we need all the stakeholders involved.
For the last few months I have been leading the review of one of the world's largest human capital services companies. With more than a dozen business units and subsidiaries in Australia alone and locations spanning the globe, the review has touched on the pointy end of engagement with government and the public sector, labour and education policies and the rise of knowledge and intellectual property as a service component.
While conducting the review I have also had the fortune of seeing global research and data on the movement of labour, migration of skilled and unskilled workers and the dynamics involved in developing economies strengthening education infrastructures and skills training for the future.
As some of you will know I have also, in the last twelve months, spent time reviewing higher education frameworks in South Africa, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia.
On a recent trip to South Africa I noted a move towards consolidating vocational and technical education across what we in Australia would call TAFE.