This is utter ideology "Jobs for the future" is political rhetoric that keeps getting rolled out like "back to basics". You cannot logically prepare for jobs in the future when you do not know what they are. But teaching thinking and history will help people pivot when they come. https://twitter.com/BreakfastNews/status/1273741203855400960

Been sitting in Trove for the morning looking up the use of "jobs for the future" in Australian and found that in the past the phrase was used as something the government was responsible for providing. It was very concrete and related to things like the Snowy Mountain Scheme

The responsibilisation of the individual for job readiness including the expectation that someone make predictions about what job, I have seen coming since I was Year 9 coordinator (20yrs ago) and we were (through edu policy) told the students had to decide.

So I'm up to 1993 and there is a shift in rhetoric coming through. The ALP is being asked to provide incentives for business to provide "jobs for the future", so the responsibility is still on govt but shifting to private enterprise.

In 2001 we have a Federal ALP candidate Frank Millen spruiking the Knowledge Nation as a means to create "Jobs for the future". So here we see the shift of responsibility from private business to the education sector.

I'd have to go on campus to look at the last two decades but basically...we have the education revolution, entrepreneurship being ushered into education over the past twenty years. Today's announcement was inevitable and has been coming for a very long time