Welcome to a special edition of Business Daily with me, Tanya Beckett, in Dubai.

School leavers today face a huge challenge launching themselves into the world of work.

The threat of artificial intelligence and the changing nature of the skills that workers

will need are two of the many uncertainties they're struggling with. This year, a quarter of a billion

young people around the world will not attend school at all. In Africa, in the Middle East,

there are the additional obstacles of conflict, poverty, lack of

teachers and cultural opposition to educating girls. So how do leaders in the industry see the

challenge of educating young people to create the workforce of the future? I spoke to Vickers

Potter, Chairman of the Varki Foundation, Elizabeth Bindlef, Youth NGO Junior Achievement, Africa,

and Dr. Amy Ogan, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Vickas, I want to start with you and ask, could you put a scale on the problem for us? We have a huge issue in the world,

not just in the developing world. And there's a statistic that stands out. Today, there's

half a billion children today in failing schools around the world. This is not a Africa problem.

This is not an Asia problem. It's as much a Europe

problem and a North America problem. And so bearing that in mind, you know, the scale of the

challenge is significant. And we have to think about how we address this.

Amy, you, I know, are very much focused on bringing technology into schools that can translate

also to being used in

the hope. You would therefore have an understanding of how schools operate and what some of the

problems might be, even when a child can get to school. Yeah, so even when children can get to

school in many of the locations around the world where these concerns are prevalent. The class sizes are so large that teachers

don't have an opportunity to engage with every child. We know it's critical to build a

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