Merryn Somerset Webb

Well, a degree of job experience, I would say.

That penny, I think, is now dropping.

But the skills you accrete in the world of work, including how to work as a team, how to negotiate,

But those what are sometimes called softer skills, personal skills, social skills, are the ones that are least likely quickly to be replaced by machine.

And the self-same would be true of certain classes of creative skills.

So creativity, the wealth of creativity is –

moving across disciplines.

And our current degree courses tend to be confined within disciplines.

I think even though we don't have the jobs, we can guess what the capabilities that will be needed and then ask ourselves, is our schooling and further on higher education system equipping kids with those capabilities?

The answer is a resolute no to that question currently, Merrin, and that would give me cause for pause.

Could and should it be fixed?

Yes.

Everything can be fixed.

This is great.

Again, brings us back to political will and finding the political space to do all these things.

If you were going back to university now, as not a retiree, obviously, as an older person, what would you study?

Well, you know what?

I am at the moment, as you know...

I am intrigued about how we make lifelong learning a reality.

So something in that sort of education meets entrepreneurship space.