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Much ink has been spilled on the subject of how the jobs market is being impacted by artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. The well-known study by economists Frey and Osborne published in 2013, which predicts that 47% of all currently existing jobs in the United States will come under threat over the next twenty years, is regularly brought out of the cupboard as a terrifying spectre. Other far more optimistic studies, based on longer time-frames, have delivered a riposte to this – largely unfounded – scaremongering, which has in fact been repeated many times over throughout our history. However, the potential impact of AI on general education and vocational skills training – two means of preparing people for the labour market – is still being largely disregarded. The model whereby you learn during the first half of your life and spend the remaining years applying what you have learned in the world of work has held up pretty well.