  Education is a major force for economic and social wellbeing. Despite high
aspirations, education at all levels can be expensive and ineffective. Three
Grand Challenges are identified: (1) enable people to learn orders of magnitude
more effectively, (2) enable people to learn at orders of magnitude less cost,
and (3) demonstrate success by exemplary interdisciplinary education in complex
systems science. A ten year `man-on-the-moon' project is proposed in which
FuturICT's unique combination of Complexity, Social and Computing Sciences
could provide an urgently needed transdisciplinary language for making sense of
educational systems. In close dialogue with educational theory and practice,
and grounded in the emerging data science and learning analytics paradigms,
this will translate into practical tools (both analytical and computational)
for researchers, practitioners and leaders; generative principles for resilient
educational ecosystems; and innovation for radically scalable, yet
personalised, learner engagement and assessment. The proposed {\em Education
Accelerator} will serve as a `wind tunnel' for testing these ideas in the
context of real educational programmes, with an international virtual campus
delivering complex systems education exploiting the new understanding of
complex, social, computationally enhanced organisational structure developed
within FuturICT.
