Ces 8 pays affichent de meilleurs résultats scolaires que la France sans dépenser plus

BUSINESS INSIDER FRANCE Chisato Goya 24 Mai 2019, 14:23 NB: Text below changed from article to reflect that spending on education is expressed per capita (par tête), not per student. https://www.businessinsider.fr/classement-pays-meilleurs-resultats-scolaires-que-france Dépenser plus ne garantit pas forcément de meilleurs résultats. Cette affirmation est vraie dans différents domaines, dont l'éducation. Kai L. Chan, professeur émérite de l'INSEAD Innovation & Policy Initiative, a classé différents pays en fonction du retour sur investissement en matière d'éducation et a partagé les résultats de ses calculs dans un article publié sur un blog de l'école. Il en ressort notamment que les Etats-Unis sont le pays qui dépensent le plus d'argent par étudiant en études supérieures ce qui n'empêche pas, dans l'ensemble, qu'ils ne soient classés qu'en 42e position pour le GMAT, un test standardisé en anglais qui permet de mesurer les compétences jugées importantes pour l'étude du management. Selon des chiffres fournis par Kai L. Chan à Business Insider France, plusieurs pays ont obtenu de meilleurs scores au classement PISA (évaluation visant à tester les compétences des élèves de 15 ans en lecture, sciences et mathématiques) et au test GMAT par rapport à la France alors qu'ils disposaient d'un budget public par étudiant inférieur à…

HKU (SPACE): Managing public services in the transitional nature of Bangladesh

I was a guest lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in their School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPACE) in 2019: "Managing public services in the transitional nature of Bangladesh: Institutional integrity, sustainable development, and advanced technology applications." The programme had two intake groups (Feb 18-Mar 1, and Mar 18-29). The below are the titles of my lectures as part of their executive education course. AI and inequality: How smart machines exacerbate demographic bias and inequality Policy workshop on advanced technology applications: Innovations and policy initiatives Policy workshop on advanced technology applications: Policy cycles, implementation gaps, and case studies Bangladesh’s competitiveness landscape: Competitiveness and positioning of Bangladesh in global performance indices in the 21st century

Oliver Wyman: The risks and rewards of changing careers & geographies: The life of an ex-OW global expatriate

I spoke at the Montreal office of Oliver Wyman, sharing my experience of life after consulting and as a global expat. The presentation can be found here.

AGI: AI and inequality: How smart machines exacerbate demographic bias and inequality

AI AND INEQUALITY: HOW SMART MACHINES EXACERBATE DEMOGRAPHIC BIAS AND INEQUALITY Date: Friday, January 11 2019, 1230 – 1400 Venue: Asia Global Institute, MB 328, 3/F Main Building, HKU How does AI generate riches, redistribute wealth and distort the labour market in multicultural societies? How will AI distort off-shoring and upend the traditional development model? As AI displaces humans from their jobs, economic value will be transferred from labour to capitalists, particularly the ‘super-elites’. In an era where capital is mobile while labour is less so, AI will exacerbate already-high levels of inequality if left unmanaged. The slides can be found here. https://youtu.be/EBvrc-NPhaM

INSEAD: The countries getting the highest return on education

Kai L. Chan, Distinguished Fellow, INSEAD Innovation & Policy Initiative | December 26, 2018 [caption id="attachment_3750" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The key to fostering a more educated populace is not financial – it’s cultural.[/caption] The key to fostering a more educated populace is not financial – it’s cultural.In measuring performance in education or healthcare, societies often mistakenly focus on inputs rather than outcomes. That is, it is common to erroneously measure success by counting the resources devoted to it. But expenditures do not equal success. Indeed, societies would like to spend – for an equivalent outcome – as little as possible. The United States is the global leader in dollars spent per student in tertiary education, yet its students rank 42nd globally on the GMAT, a standardised test used primarily for admission to post-graduate schooling. There is a similar disconnect between inputs and outputs for the PISA, a test administered by the OECD to a broad sample of 15-year-old students. Luxembourg spends the most in absolute terms per student in the primary and secondary stages of education, yet ranks 32nd on the PISA. If expenditures were calibrated against the size of the economy, the global leader in education would be Botswana. Figure 1 below shows the relationship…

L’anglais, trop fort

L’anglais, trop fort ANTOINE ROBITAILLE Mardi, 6 novembre 2018 05:00MISE à JOUR Mardi, 6 novembre 2018 05:00 Je suis tombé hier par hasard sur un texte intitulé « Is the English language too powerful ? ». (La langue anglaise est-elle trop puissante ?) L’auteur, Kai Chan, est « distinguished fellow » à l’INSEAD (l’Institut européen d’administration des affaires). Il a grandi à Toronto, mais conseille entre autres le gouvernement des Émirats arabes unis. Chan met des chiffres sur ce qu’on sait intuitivement, soit que la langue anglaise n’a peut-être jamais été aussi forte : c’est la « langue des sciences, des affaires et de la recherche », écrit-il. Le chercheur a dressé un « Power Language Index » (PLI), sorte de palmarès, afin de déterminer quelle est la langue « la plus utile dans la vie d’une personne, dans une perspective mondiale ». Sans surprise, dans le PLI, l’anglais a le score le plus élevé, 0,889. Le mandarin ? 0,411. « Ainsi, écrit Chan, non seulement l’anglais est la langue la plus puissante, elle l’est deux fois plus que sa plus proche rivale. » Montréal Dans sa note publiée par le World Economic Forum, le chercheur se penche sur le cas de Montréal. Il souligne ceci :…

WEF: Is the English language too powerful?

Even in countries with a powerful home language, the weight of English can be strong. Is this good for the world? Not only is English the most powerful language, it is more than twice as powerful as its closest rival, Mandarin Image: REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin 02 Nov 2018 Kai Chan Distinguished Fellow, INSEAD Innovation and Policy Initiative In 2016 I published the “Power Language Index”, a research note on the efficacy of languages. It was a systematic data-driven analysis using 20 indicators to compare the clout of the world’s languages. It tried to answer the question: which language best serves a person to engage in life from a global perspective? The index was designed as a cardinal measure, meaning that the output -- a number that ranges from zero (least powerful) to one (most powerful) -- not only ranks the languages, but also indicates the magnitude with which they are more or less influential vis-à-vis another. Not surprisingly, the index showed that English, with a score of 0.889, is most powerful. It is the world’s lingua franca. In second place is Mandarin at 0.411. So not only is English the most powerful language, it is more than twice as powerful as its…

Toronto Star: Cycling one way to help needy

Letter to the Toronto Star (Wednesday, October 10, 2018) 10 people. 10 solutions for poverty, Oct. 8 Joe Mihevc’s idea to incorporate cycling solutions is fantastic in that it simultaneously tackles poverty, fitness and the environment. However, some people — especially those living in poverty — may not know how to ride a bike. I grew up in poverty and learned to ride as an adult. Unfortunately, if this skill is not taught at home it is unlikely to be picked up elsewhere, and learning after early childhood comes with a lot of stigma and embarrassment. This skill should thus be taught in early elementary school for those not fortunate enough to have already learned at home. It would help overcome the mobility issue that limits the options of the poor, a point that was almost universally mentioned by the 10 people in the article. Kai L. Chan, Montreal © Copyright Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. 1996 - 2018 Letter as it appeared online.

G&M: What a ‘majority’ says

Letter to the Globe & Mail (October 3, 2018) The Coalition Avenir Québec won a majority – 74 of 125 seats – in Monday’s election, but the results are a far cry from voters rejecting old-line Liberals and the Parti Québécois. Indeed, the Liberals and PQ together amassed some 41 per cent of the popular vote, more than the about 37 per cent garnered by the CAQ, which won just two ridings in Montreal. If anything, the election demonstrated again the “tyranny of the plurality” in the first-past-the-post system, which not only wastes the votes of many people, but also makes possible inane outcomes. It is time to incorporate some element of PR in our electoral system. Kai L. Chan, Montreal Article as it appeared online. © Copyright 2018 The Globe and Mail Inc. All rights reserved.

Smart robots set to test management skills

Published in MEED 30 SEPTEMBER 2018 11:58 AM In the second part of our series on managing intelligent machines, Aiowala’s Kai Chan looks at the challenges faced in creating a thriving AI ecosystem in the Gulf. Link to article (requires subscription). Click here for full article. © MEED MEDIA FZ LLC Company number 18693 (Dubai Creative Clusters Authority) Registered address: C/O GlobalData Plc., John Carpenter House, 7 Carmelite Street, London, EC4Y 0BS, UK