Challenges of Government 2019 - From conception to career:

From conception to career: Building better futures for young people.

OECD-level countries provide rich opportunities for a minority of cognitively gifted young people, but the majority face pitfalls all along the chain from conception to developing a career – from the damage caused by stress in early parenting to the limited availability of vocational training.

The Blavatnik School’s Paul Collier, author of The Future of Capitalism, talks to three people who are addressing some of the issues: Sara Fernandez, director of volunteer organisation Oxford Hub, who works on strengthening families with young children; Sandra McNally, expert on vocational education; and Josh Babarinde, founder of a smartphone repair service staffed by ex-offenders and at-risk youth.

Speakers: Josh Babarinde, founder and CEO of Cracked It; Sara Fernandez, Director of Oxford Hub; Sandra McNally, Director of the Centre for Vocational Education Research and Professor of Economics at University of Surrey; and Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School.

Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford

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