Creativity to help cut dropout rate

Student mobility and creative teaching methods are key to addressing the dropout rate in European schools, according to judges and participants in a European Innovation and Creativity Camp for teenagers.

John Grumbar of head-hunting firm Egon Zehnder International said cultural adaptability, creativity and problem-solving are among the skills most valued by employers.
"I would advise young people to try to travel and get experience outside their immediate communities," said Grumbar, who chaired a judging panel for a competition to devise ways of making education more appealing to teenagers.
He also encouraged students to develop team skills and to use their social networks, stressing that "who you know is almost as important as what you know".
The event, organised by Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise (JA-YE ) Europe as part of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation (EYCI ), brought 100 school students from 25 countries to Brussels this week (24-25 November) to participate in the competition. Schools from the EU, Israel, Macedonia, Mali, Norway, Russia, Serbia and Turkey took part.
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