African economies should use natural resources to shape career pathways

AFRICAN leaders and parents are not fully investing in abundant natural resources to create career paths for their children.

Academic learning and performance have been taken to determine the future of every child yet formal education systems are not fully tailored to maximise inherent capacities, traits and gifts which children are born with. Ideally, career choices should be influenced largely by in-born traits and passion not academic performance.

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