SABER Report 2020: Transforming Education Systems
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Information is gathered from other international organizations that promote skills development and the transition from education and training to work. The Interagency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET) was established in 2009 to share research findings, coordinate joint research endeavours, and improve collaboration among organizations working at the international and national levels.
Core skills and literacy
Core employability skills build upon and strengthen the skills developed through basic education; the technical skills needed for specific occupations or to perform specific tasks or duties (such as nursing, accounting, using technology or driving a forklift); and professional/personal attributes such as honesty, reliability, punctuality and loyalty.
Core work skills enable individuals to constantly acquire and apply new knowledge and skills; they are also critical to lifelong learning. Various agencies and organizations have given different labels to these skills, ranging from “key competencies” to “soft skills”, “transferable skills” or “essential skills”.
Research papers
Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.
opportunity for reimagining education, addressing inequality, and reducing learning poverty. As they rebuild,
countries can orient their systems toward a more inclusive “future of learning”, one in which learning occurs for
everyone, everywhere. This vision for the future can be realized only by transforming entire education systems
to prioritize student learning. To help realize this future of learning, the SABER UF has recently transitioned to
the Foundational Learning Compact (FLC), a new Umbrella Trust Fund created by the WBG’s Education Global
Practice (GP) in alignment with an institution-wide Trust Fund reform. In an effort to address the learning crisis
and help realize the promise of learning for all, the FLC has been established to align partnerships, financing,
and technical support around key measurable education outcomes, namely decreases in Learning Poverty and
increases in Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS). The FLC is now our multi-donor umbrella trust fund
that hosts existing and new education initiatives meant to enhance global and country efforts to pursue systemic
and sustained improvements in early childhood, primary, and secondary education to achieve learning for all.
The SABER initiatives will continue to be a key part of our country engagement, along with other global initiatives
planned under the FLC that include (but are not limited to) the Accelerator Program, Coach (teacher professional
development tool), and the EdTech Hub/Policy Academy.