🔮 10 Trends shaping the Education market in the decade ahead. Global Skills Week - March 24-26. 🇺🇸
AI, workforce demands, sustainability, and collaborative partnerships are driving change in the soon to be $10 trillion education market. Dive into the trends and numbers shaping education in the decades ahead.
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AI, workforce demands, sustainability, and collaborative partnerships are driving change in the soon to be $10 trillion education market. From AI’s growing role to the focus on flexible learning models and practical skills attainment, education is heading toward smarter, more connected systems of impact.
🚀 AI Moves From Experimentation Towards Serious Implementation
Mass AI experimentation is transitioning to serious implementation. AI adoption is accelerating as countries roll out policies, guidelines, and frameworks, while AI-enabled solutions continue to emerge to tackle challenges at every stage of the learning journey.
🌟 Skills Economy Drives Workforce-Focused Education
Upskilling and reskilling are becoming central to education pathways. Work-integrated learning models—internships, apprenticeships, and co-op programs—are gaining traction globally, aligning education with industry needs. Governments are incentivizing practical training, making it faster and less expensive for students to enter in-demand jobs.
🔧 Talent Demands Enhance Vocational Education
Vocational training is emerging as a pragmatic choice for learners. Policies like India’s mandate requiring work-integrated learning for all undergraduate degrees demonstrate this shift. Collaborative initiatives between academic institutions and industries are creating seamless pathways from education to employment, addressing local talent shortages.
Bridging the gap between education and the workforce has become a bigger priority for employers, K12 schools and institutions.
🇺🇸 Join us for Global Skills Week and Forum Washington D.C, 24-28 March
Global Skills Week brings together skills-focused industry, colleges and universities, policy-makers, economic development and technology leaders from around the world. The Future of Skills & Work Forum on Wednesday March 26, is the main program for Global Skills Week in 2025, connecting the global skills economy to advance ideas, initiatives and partnerships for next-generation skills, quality jobs and economic growth. Numbers are limited - Register Now!
🌐 Global Conferences & Events
Meet with higher education leaders and experts from around the world, in person and online, at one of the QS Global events in 2025 to discuss emerging trends and pressing challenges in higher education.
2025 events include the QS EduData Summit and QS Reimagine Education, and regional and country-focused events for Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Americas, Europe, China, India and Arab region. Learn More.
💪 Power Moves
💻 Amazon committed to training 500K students in Spain in tech and digital skills by 2027, targeting young people aged 11 to 25.
🤝 Kenya’s National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has entered into a $1B agreement with Digital Learning Network to digitize Nigeria's curriculum through an AI-powered learning platform and supply laptops and affordable data to over 40M students.
🔬 LEGO® Education has introduced LEGO® Education Science a hands-on learning solution for K-8 students to enhance student engagement in science education.
💰 Funding
🔬 Cengage Group, a US-based curriculum resource provider, acquired Visible Body, a provider of interactive 3D models and software for science education.
💡 Jotit, an Israeli learning platform provider, raised $10M in funds to expand its platform operations and development.
💸 GrayQuest, an Indian finance solution for students, raised $9.3M in funding to scale its operations in the country.
🏘️ hostU, a US-based platform dedicated to student housing, secured a second round of funding to expand key markets in the US, develop an AI-integrated data engine, and improve its technology platform.
🫂 Wayable, a Canadian platform specialized in support for international students, acquired Psymood, a mental health and mentorship provider targeted at international students.
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