FT forum discusses nation's future

Senior public and private sector strategists and decision-makers in education, technology and finance gathered on Oct 21 for the FT Innovation in Education Forum, the second major international conference on the transformation of China's education sector, organized by Financial Times and sponsored by Pearson Education.

This year's event focused on steps needed to develop the human capital to fuel China's continued economic growth. Themes included whether Chinese education puts enough attention on developing specific skills of its talent base along with evolvement of its economic structure; whether there is a sufficient focus on the transition from the campus to the workplace; and whether an increasing number of potential managers graduating from MBA programs are specialized enough for China's economic situation or more suited to jobs abroad.