Global Trend Monitor on inclusive education and aviation

Global Trend Monitor has published an interview with our founder, Aida Ismail, written by Shereen Shabnam after the two met in Dubai. It is called Aida Ismail: Opening New Horizons Through Inclusive Education and Aviation, and you can read the whole thing here:

https://globaltrendmonitor.com/aida-ismail-opening-new-horizons-through-inclusive-education-and-aviation/

The short version. It starts with the workforce gap: Boeing's long-term outlook puts commercial aviation's need at more than 2.4 million new pilots, maintenance technicians and cabin crew by 2045. The interview argues that a careers talk in secondary school comes too late, and that the work has to start with children aged four to nine, through story and play rather than a syllabus.

It then covers access. Every story goes out as a hardcover book, in Braille, in electronic Braille, as an audiobook and as a sign-language video, so that a child of determination gets the same story at the same time as everyone else.

The rest is about the shape of the industry and who pays for the work: that aviation runs on engineering, maintenance, design and operations rather than on two famous jobs, and how airlines, manufacturers and airport operators join in through co-branded inflight kits, school workshops and Buy-1-Give-1 programmes.