At the launch of the SkillsFuture Festival on July 4, Education Minister Chan Chun Sing said Singapore’s SkillsFuture movement would shift to a higher gear, to help the workforce retool in scale and speed.
Advances in Artificial Intelligence will transform jobs at scale. While automation has already replaced many manual processes, AI has the potential to take over professional and even creative tasks ranging from writing to programming.
As I see it, employability is certainly not a lost cause. Jobs will still be the principal source of livelihood for the next generation, but continuous retraining will become the new norm. Even with employability as the overarching goal, training objectives will vary across workers. The expectation remains that citizens will provide for themselves and their families via employment income and savings. Their housing, healthcare and retirement needs will be met principally by Central Provident Fund contributions set aside from work income.
Jobs and skills are transforming so quickly now that remaining in the same job and firm throughout one’s working years will be the exception rather than the norm. Yet others will seek to retrain for entirely different sectors and occupations, while some will seek to acquire additional skill sets with a view to future career moves, to supplement their income or to enhance employment resilience.SkillsFuture must therefore address the who, why, what and how of reskilling.
What types of courses and training should be offered? This will depend on the skills currently in demand, and those that are expected to become increasingly important in future. How should training be conducted? This is about andragogy, the art and science of adult education. Adults may learn differently from children, hence the distinction between andragogy and the more familiar discipline, pedagogy.
If this can be done well and at scale, it would make our workforce and businesses more competitive and better equipped for the AI era.Perhaps the most critical question that SkillsFuture must address is what training will do for the individual. The payoffs to training may not always be measured by higher wages, but could also be reflected in the avoidance of layoffs and redundancy, as well as the possibility of new jobs and higher future earning potential.
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