"A New Agenda for Business: Demonstrating Outcomes for the ‘Show-Me’ Generation" by Sir Michael Barber

1. A New Agenda for Business: "
Demonstrating Outcomes for the ‘Show-Me’
Generation
Transforming the Role of Business in Education
Sir Michael Barber
FSG, Shared Value Initiative
and Stanford Social Innovation Review
Palo Alto 29 October 2014
@michaelbarber9

2. THEME 1:
Education is a big problem

3. By 2020, employers will need c40m
more workers with tertiary education
SOURCE: The World at Work, Jobs, Pay and Skills for 3.5b people, McKinsey Global Institute (2012)

4. Global demand for higher education
will expand from 97m students in 2000
to 262m students in 2025
SOURCE: World Conference on Higher Education, UNESCO (2009)

5. Globally, almost 290m young
people (aged 15-24) are neither
working nor studying
SOURCE: Generation Jobless, Economist (2013)

6. Globally, 781m adults lack basic
reading and writing skills
SOURCE: United Nations, www.un.org/millenniumgoals/education.shtml

7. Illiteracy costs the world $1.19 trillion
per year.
SOURCE: The Economic and Social Cost of Illiteracy, World literacy Foundation (2012)

8. THEME 2:
Delivering results in the public sector

9. Three paradigms of reform
Quasi-markets
Devolution and
transparency
Command
and control
Community engagement and
mobilization
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10. You can mandate adequacy… greatness has to
be unleashed
Committing
GREAT
Staying
GOOD
Grumbling
ADEQUATE
Exiting
AWFUL
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11. How can public and private combine?
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PUBLIC PRIVATE
Funding
Regulation
Provision

12. Traditionally school systems were entirely public
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PUBLIC PRIVATE
Funding
Regulation
Provision
✔
✔
✔

13. Some now involve private providers in the system
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PUBLIC PRIVATE
Funding
Regulation
Provision
✔
✔
✔
✔

14. At higher education level funding as well as
provision are mixed
PUBLIC PRIVATE
Funding
Regulation
Provision
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✔
✔
✔
✔
✔

15. THEME 3:
Demanding educational outcomes

16. Beyond access: the need for improving
educational outcomes
Primary school-aged
children (globally)
100%
Will attend some
schooling
96% In school now
SOURCE: The Learning Challenge, Acasus (2014)
91%
Delivery gap
Will reach a basic level
of learning literacy and
numeracy
37%

17. The evidence strongly suggests that
improving education at all levels
reduces political violence"
SOURCE: Education and Civil Conflict, UNESCO (2011)

18. Matching current Singaporean skill
level in the USA school population
would result in a $160 trillion gain
in GDP by 2093
SOURCE: Hanushek, Peterson, and Woessmann

19. The “Show Me” Generation
Citizens and consumers are making Expectations
more demands of business and
government alike.
Delivery gap
Willingness to
pay (taxes)
SOURCE: Governor Martin O’Malley, Institute for Government, 18 September 2014

20. Successful innovation will be essential
System
Change
Technology
Learner
Pedagogy
Source: Michael Fullan

21. THEME 4:
Shared value, efficacy and education

22. Shared Value and Efficacy
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Social
progress
EFFICACY
Company
success

23. Shared Value and Efficacy
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Social
progress
EFFICACY
Company
success

24. Starting from outcomes
Access
The learner access and experience
Completion
The timeliness of completion
Achievement
The standard of achievement or level of competence
Progression
Learner progression
Level of aspiration
and value
Utility
Usage rhythm as
designed
Competencies and
skills achieved
‘Door unlocked’
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25. Efficacy Framework:
Assessing the Likelihood of Impact
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26. Combining efficacy and business success
Product efficacy
Profitability
Success
Failure Refine business
model
Improve
outcomes
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27. Operationalising Efficacy to Impact Learners
Impacting
products and
services
Reviews, Studies,
Product Lifecycle
Impact on
Learners
Impacting
people and
culture
Staffing, Training,
KPIs and evaluations
Impacting the
public
conversation
Reporting and
auditing
(2014-2018),
engaging the
research community
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28. @michaelbarber9
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