A word of caution: the rush to "solutions" is fraught with problems - it is a bit like running with scissors or competing in a Formula 1 race with a Ford Taurus. These are suggestions aimed at triggering a response which in turn should lead to "better" suggestions for action.

These are also very Western and Northern Hemisphere views of the world. While I have worked in the Middle-East, visited Africa, India, many countries in the Pacific and spent time with educators from around the world, my deep experience and thinking is Western (especially Canadian / British). My colleague Paul Prinsloo of UNISA (South Africa) carefully reminds me of this by sharing research and studies of the ongoing impact of colonialism, of poverty and of other factors which lead to very different challenges and solutions in the Global South.