The Impact of Automation on Education

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Education – in the Senedd at 1:50 pm on 3 July 2019.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 1:50, 3 July 2019

Minister, obviously, automation is an opportunity for us. Figures do show that up to 35 per cent of the workforce will have to retrain, remodel, their skills and, indeed, many of those jobs might disappear altogether. So, the demands placed on the further education sector in particular and part-time learners are going to be considerable in the next decade or so. What efforts has the department undertaken to model the work so that they can work with the training sector, especially the FE sector, to build that capacity so that where people, particularly in work, need new training opportunities, that capacity is there, so it's not just in the school environment but is right the way through the learning culture that we want to ingrain in our society?