Recent changes in the world effected by the transformations of information technology globalisation and the move towards a knowledge economy over the last thirty years have been as radical and fundamental as the changes resulting from the invention of the wheel and the printing press. We are now living in a new age in which the demands are so complex so multifarious and so rapidly changing that the only way in which we shall be able to survive them is by committing to a process of individual communal and global learning throughout the lifespan of all of us. A number of international bodies and agencies have taken cognisance of these transformations and the demands they impose upon societies and communities of the twenty-first century and have developed and articulated policies intended to enable all citizens of the world in the twenty-first century to face these challenges. It is now a declared policy of many governments and international agencies that the only vehicle for such preparation is education education education and that preparing for the knowledge economy and the learning society of the future has to be a lifelong undertaking an investment in the future that is not restricted merely to the domain of economic advancement but also to those of social inclusion and personal growth. Realising this policy-makers across the international arena are grappling with the need to move from systems that emphasise education and training to the radically more unworked construc...
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