Salhberg Pasj
Pasi Sahlberg is Director General of CIMO in Helsinki, Finland. He has global expertise in educational reforms, training teachers and leaders, coaching schools to change and advising education policy-makers. He speaks and writes about educational change, development and cooperation. He has PhD from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and is Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki and the University of Oulu.
" Education policies for raising economic competitiveness and sustainability"
Many recent large-scale education reforms have been justified by the urgent need to increase labor productivity and promote economic development and growth through expanded and improved education. This presentation argues that what schools are expected to do in order to promote economic competitiveness often contradicts commonly accepted global education reform thinking. The conclusion is that rather than competition between education systems, schools and students, what is needed is networking, deeper co-operation and open sharing of ideas at all levels if the role of education in economic competitiveness is to be strengthened.