My third week took me from Rakiura/Stewart Island at the southernmost tip of Aotearoa/New Zealand to the vineyards of Central…
I’ve finished my second week in New Zealand researching practical innovations to providing education and training in…
I’ve finished my first week of meetings here in Wellington for my research into practical innovations in providing…
I feel that growth in rural areas is too often reduced to limited infrastructure rather than understanding the impact of the growing gap in infrastructure for rural and town areas has on the people and communities that live there. I think policymakers…
Estonia is identified as a pioneer in digital transformation of public services.
The Estonia Government and Enterprise Estonia launched the e-Estonia initiative in 1997 which has successfully digitised 99% of public services. In 2000, the Estonian government…
The people of Sweden are the most positive about changes to the labour market, supported by one of the strongest approaches globally to maintaining employment and supporting lifelong learning.
New Zealand has a world leading approach to targeting skills to support different regions and respond to changes to the labour market.
I want to find out more about work underway in the New Zealand Government on plans announced in 2019:
Growth is driven as much by the talents and hard work of the people who live there as the infrastructure and investment that underpins the businesses they work in. High skilled workers choose to cluster, living and working…
It’s all about skills — but what does that actually mean?
Education, defined by the World Economic Forum as ‘the stock of skills, competencies and other productivity enhancing characteristics’, is accepted as key to economic growth as it…
Automation and digitisation are changing the nature of jobs and the skills required to do them. Changes to the labour market are felt strongly in rural areas where there is more reliance on manufacturing and carbon intensive industries, and a lower share of services in their economy. People must be able…
