And crucially our exam-obsessed system is not designed to develop the softer skills, such as creativity, initiative, problem-solving, reasoning, and team-working, that young people need for higher education, work and their future lives.
"Employers still find that some young people lack the initiative, problem-solving and communication skills needed to succeed at work".
After 6 months of working with the child and his mother, the boy's teacher observed the child exhibiting significant positive change in constructively identifying, expressing, and understanding factors contributing to his intense emotion and its effect, rechanneling his action into more effective peer communication, heightened initiative in problem solving, and motivation for learning.
And, he added, speaking of the Obama initiative, "The problem is that this game, like the last one, is rigged".
When the national programme was instituted, these sites were not only able to provide a practical demonstration of "intervention-system fit"; they also established a programme style of bottom-up initiative and problem solving.
It will mean using your initiative and problem-solving skills..
Projects already approved under this initiative tackle problems such as HIV/AIDS, vaccines, nutrition, mosquito control, and diagnostics.
In other words, the apprehension of offenders and the prevention of criminal activity is only a part of the wider conservation agenda, which includes reducing human-wildlife conflict, developing community-based conservation initiatives and problem solving, and promoting tourism.
Deasy's bold technology initiative had problems from nearly the start, beginning with the high cost.
Everyone there had an example of citizens taking the initiative, solving problems at the local level.
The content of messaging is often influenced by funding and it appears that many media initiatives from problem pages through to advertorials are not evaluated critically in terms of impact and effectiveness.
