Functional Education is inevitable to get emerging economies out of the cycle of poverty.

We live in a knowledge-driven and tech-based information age in which highspeed logistical networks have shrunk immense geographical distances and transformed the earth into a logical global village.

In localising economic opportunities, forces of globalisation continue to favour buoyant regions, which offer excellent conditions for production.

Intelligent infrastructures progressively redistribute employment from humans to machines, compounding the predicaments of vulnerable regions.

Innovation is, unarguably, the confirmed path to a prosperous future for any nation.

Economies that have been sustained by natural resources or unskilled labour must start to develop sophisticated human capital if they wish to maximise the opportunities offered by the complex new paradigm.

Every nation needs to empower its citizens with the knowledge to create employable machines and the programmes that control them, as well as the complicated skills to deploy, manage and exploit those modern era slaves.

21st-century functional education is a prerequisite for human capital development, albeit, many third world economies lack funds for the humongous investments in the necessary infrastructure, instructional materials, and qualified teachers.