CSO – Staff Writer
“”Today’s fast-changing world requires students who not only possess strong skills in areas such as language arts, maths and science but must also be adept at skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, persistence, collaboration, and curiosity,” BCG [Boston Consulting Group] says. According to BCG, The requisite twenty-first-century skills fall into three broad categories: foundational literacies, competencies and character qualities. It describes the foundational literacies as being those that “serve as the base upon which students need to build more advanced and equally important competencies and character qualities,” and lists them as literacy, numeracy, ICT literacy, scientific literacy, financial literacy, cultural and civic literacy.”(more)