Policies for green skills and job creation in Korea
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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Anticipating and matching skills needs
Anticipating and building skills for the future is essential to a rapidly changing labour market. This applies to changes in the types and levels of skills needed as well as in occupational and technical areas. Effective methods to anticipate future skills needs and avoid potential mismatches include: sustained dialogue between employers and trainers, coordination across government institutions, labour market information systems, employment services and performance reviews of training institutions.
Career guidance and employment services
Career guidance and counselling, career education and lifelong development of skills for employability are key for success in learning activities, effective career transitions, livelihood planning, entrepreneurship and in increasing labour market participation. They are instrumental in promoting skills utilization, recognition (RPL), as well as in improving enterprise human resource management.
Career development activities encompass a wide variety of support activities including career information and advice, counselling, work exposure (e.g. job shadowing, work experience periods), assessment, coaching, mentoring, professional networking, advocacy, basic and employability skills training (curricular and non-curricular) and entrepreneurship training. It is often an area which is fragmented across different ministries (e.g. education, TVET, employment, youth) requiring an effort to achieve the necessary coordination to provide adequate support to individuals during learning, employment and unemployment/inactivity periods.
Training quality and relevance
Case studies and good practices
Case studies that document good practices and illustrate the benefits and lessons learnt of particular approaches or methods in real practice.
A case study of the Green Growth Best Practice (GGBP) initiative – a global network of researchers and practitioners working to advance understanding in the emerging field of green growth. This case study is a summary of research input towards the GGBP report ‘Green Growth in Practice: Lessons from Country Experiences’. GGBP’s work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode
Korea’s economy has grown rapidly and dramatically through an active industrial policy and the development of high-technology manufacturing and energy-intensive heavy industry. However, this model has had its limitations, resulting in a shift towards ‘green growth’ as a means of sparking innovation, job creation, improved energy security, and a quality of life.
The government estimated that an investment of USD 105 billion on green growth between 2009 and 2013 would lead to the creation of approximately 1.18 million jobs. To realize this potential impact on the labour market, a broad set of policy measures for green job creation, technological development, and vocational training were developed at various levels and sectors, covering individuals ranging from young students to professionals.
Climate change
Economic growth
Green jobs
Green skills
Public private partnerships
Qualification frameworks
Skills and training policy
Skills re-training
Skills upgrading
Vocational training
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