Today’s schoolchildren will likely end up working until the age of 100, and take on as many as 40 different jobs.
That’s according to ‘futurologist’ Rohit Talwar, who was speaking at the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference at St Andrews University, and said that the education system needs to adapt to the needs of world of the future.
Medical advances are helping to raise life expectancy which, combined with robots taking over certain jobs, means that today’s youngest people will experience a very different working life from that of their parents.
Talwar said that an 11-year-old today will have "a reasonable expectation of living until 120".
“Will it be natural for 50 per cent of the population not to be working? And what happens to society if 50 per cent of the people don’t have jobs?" he added.
What do you think? When do you think is a reasonable age for today’s children to work until?
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