A New Social Contract For Education
According to the Scottish Government:
‘Scotland’s education system is being reformed to improve outcomes for learners of all ages, while ensuring that those delivering education in settings, schools and colleges are better supported.
Our education reform programme has been informed by a series of independent reviews which were published between 2021 and 2023. These reports detail ways in which we could build on the strengths of the current system, for the betterment of children and young people, adult learners and practitioners.
Education reform is about drawing on the strengths and successes of our system and ensuring it is ready to meet changing needs now, and in the future.
Around the same time as the Scottish education reviews were being carried out and published, the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published the report of its International Commission on the Futures of Education. The Commission was set up in 2019 ‘to reimagine how knowledge and learning can shape the future of humanity and the planet’.
Its aim was ‘to catalyse a global debate on how education needs to be rethought in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and fragility and its report was entitled Reimagining our Futures Together: a new social contract for education.
You can read the full report by clicking on the image above, or download it here
