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The Education Futurist
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Futures Literacy: Why Every Child Should Leave School Futures Literate
Just over a million people aged 16 to 24 across the UK were not in education, employment or training at the beginning of this year (Office for National Statistics, 2026). Kemi Badenoch, leader of the opposition, has framed part of…
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Foresight is a governance capability. Education hasn’t caught up with that yet.
The argument that foresight is an organisational capability rather than a planning exercise is one that reads obviously once you encounter it, and yet its implications take time to work…
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AI alignment is a futures literacy problem
Everyone building AI systems is talking about alignment. How do we ensure AI serves human values? How do we make it safe and beneficial? How do we keep it under…
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What Do We Actually Mean by “Future-Ready”?
A Causal Layered Analysis of education’s favourite phrase “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration…
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What Nietzsche Got Right About Uncertainty Monday I reclaimed the word utopia. Today I want to reclaim another word the…
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What If Young People’s Anxiety Is Actually Information?
We keep trying to fix young people’s anxiety about the future. Resilience programmes. Wellbeing support. Reassurance that things will work…
Rachael Smith
“The schools that will thrive in 2035 are being designed right now by leaders who refuse to mistake familiarity for safety.”