{"id":180848,"date":"2026-01-23T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/what-are-we-preparing-young-people-for\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:45:08","slug":"what-are-we-preparing-young-people-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/what-are-we-preparing-young-people-for\/","title":{"rendered":"what are we preparing young people for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-big-higher-education-question-in-2026-ought-to-be-what-are-we-preparing-young-people-for-270208\">what are we preparing young people for?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-big-higher-education-question-in-2026-ought-to-be-what-are-we-preparing-young-people-for-270208\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-big-higher-education-question-in-2026-ought-to-be-what-are-we-preparing-young-people-for-270208<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-23 05:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The UK&#8217;s new education and skills policy promises inclusivity but lacks a clear educational philosophy.<\/li>\n<li>The modern industrial strategy emphasizes a workforce ready for growth in green jobs and AI, yet questions the moral compass of education.<\/li>\n<li>Higher education in the UK focuses on metrics and policies, leading to a malaise and stifling curiosity, critical thinking, and imagination.<\/li>\n<li>Traditional universities risk becoming indistinguishable from each other and losing their role as moral and intellectual conscience due to the creeping homogenization and commercialization.<\/li>\n<li>Education should evolve to foster adaptability, imagination, and moral judgment as automation reshapes the job market.<\/li>\n<li>Newer &#8220;challenger universities&#8221; are reimagining education around curiosity and moral imagination, emphasizing global immersion and ethical engagement.<\/li>\n<li>Higher education stands at a crossroads: either deeper optimization leading to a soulless system or returning to truth, curiosity, and moral imagination for fuller human experience.<\/li>\n<li>Universities must redefine ambition to teach for both the labor market and the &#8220;human market&#8221; of creativity, empathy, and ethical responsibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what are we preparing young people for? https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-big-higher-education-question-in-2026-ought-to-be-what-are-we-preparing-young-people-for-270208 Publish Date: 2026-01-23 05:01:00 Source Domain: theconversation.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/711626\/original\/file-20260109-56-nubrpc.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C0%2C6571%2C3284&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180850,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180848\/revisions\/180850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}