Ipsos MORI Politics & Society Podcast: World Youth Skills Day Special

On this week's special podcast, Kelly Beaver, Managing Director of Public Affairs is joined by Mark Herbert, Director, Schools & TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training), British Council, UK and Will Straw – CEO of the Prince’s Trust International.

In this episode, the team review Ipsos’s latest data on children and young people, collected to mark World Youth Skills Day, which explores how adults in 29 countries understand and perceive the challenges facing children and young people across the world as a result of the pandemic.

What do the public think are the biggest issues facing children and young people? And how does this align with what our guest speakers are seeing ‘on the ground’?

What, if anything, do the public want policymakers and NGOs to do to improve access to education, redress the harm caused by the pandemic, and help children and young people return to school?

And what does this all mean for organisations working in the global education sector, and the governments they are trying to influence??

Our team discuss all this and more, with a conscious focus on the impact of pandemic-related school closures on children’s education, wellbeing, skills development, and capacity for lifelong learning across the world.

World Youth Skills Day was established in 2014, to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.

World Youth Skills Day 2021 celebrates the resilience and creativity of youth worldwide throughout the Coronavirus crisis.