Creating holistic talents to ride the waves of change

(From left): Prof Syed Ahmad, Prof Barton, Prof Downes, Goh, Khairil Anwar, Prof Smith and Prof Britton.

The key to building a disruption-ready workforce is to produce adaptable, and resilient critical thinkers, with strong skills in communication. Tomorrow’s graduates must be balanced individuals who can work in a team, say education experts at a recent roundtable session. 

THE Malaysian Employers Federation has warned of retrenchments, while the World Economic Forum predicts that automation will kill five million jobs in the next three years.