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#236 - Why Adult Education is Broken and How We Fix It

The Edtech Podcast

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Introduction

This week we're asking the big questions and thinking about the challenges of upskilling in an atomised gig economy. It what's your path from being an Uber driver to being a new bird coder? How do you get training to those who need it most? The robots don't take the jobs they change them. And how do you resolve the complexities of the current systems? There was a boldness in that offer of free education for adults that is just missing from this kind of incrementalist kind of tweaks, says James Plunkett.

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