Schools must nurture innovative, entrepreneurial mindset to help students’ future success

Schools are having to quickly evolve in our increasingly complex and interconnected world to help prepare future graduates for the rapidly changing demands of higher education and the global job market.

They must ensure students not only achieve academic success and go on to university, but also thrive in their future careers, Rob Fox, headmaster of Wycombe Abbey School Hong Kong (WASHK), says.

It is important that schools equip children with core skills, such as communication, creativity and critical thinking, so they have the right mindset to succeed in the real world, he says in the latest edition of EdTalk – South China Morning Post’s video series of interviews that discuss pertinent issues surrounding education.

Many companies today are keen to employ proactive job candidates with creative abilities such as innovation, problem-solving and entrepreneurship.

“It’s important to teach the children about the world they live in now, while also preparing them skills-wise for all those challenges they are going to face later in their lives, both at university and when they embark on their careers,” Fox says.