They will require workers that are literate, numerate, adaptable, and trainable in a word, educated.
Even now, South Africa's schoolchildren remain among the least numerate in the world, although literacy rates are improving.
Botswana's school-leavers are, on average, more literate and numerate than South Africa's, so workers are not hard to train.
And I am beginning to seriously doubt that Professor Reich is numerate.
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She pointed out that a more numerate workforce was in the interests of both workers and bosses and should not be related to performance review.
You might call him absent-minded if you did not know that he has also been a sharp-eyed investment banker and an egregiously numerate shadow Treasury spokesman.
Mr Laws, by contrast, is a conspicuously numerate former banker.
But the result of losing manufacturing is surely a relatively non-numerate and scientifically illiterate population, which at a time of huge technological progress strikes me as something of a disadvantage.
It is telling its members that they may have to pay more, especially to recruit those with engineering degrees, who are being snapped up by accountancy firms keen to attract numerate graduates.
It was once assumed, for instance, that a liberal arts degree holder was numerate and literate and knew how to draw lessons from history, weigh evidence, think, write, speak, debate and learn.
It would be great to have an MBA class with a strong representation of people from the arts and humanities, but the reality is that an MBA student needs to be highly numerate.
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The Task Group includes the First Church Commissioner, Andreas Whittam-Smith, an unusually saintly and numerate erstwhile hack - who gave me my big break in journalism, by recruiting me to help launch the Independent newspaper in 1986 (goodness it feels such a long time ago).
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