SABER Workforce Development Singapore Multiyear Country Report 2012
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International organizations
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.
Participation of employers' and workers' organizations
The world of learning and the world of work are separate but linked. While one involves learning, the other produces goods and services. Neither can thrive without the other. Strong partnerships between government, employers and workers help ensure the relevance of training to the changing needs of enterprises and labour markets.
Evaluation reports
Analytical assessments of technical cooperation programmes and national skills and employment policies, identifying success factors of different interventions in response to particular challenges in different circumstances.
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.
measures that helped to progress workforce development within the framework of human capital
development. The study piloted a new diagnostic tool (SABER-WfD) to assess Singapore’s
workforce development for three time periods: 1970, 1990 and 2010. This case illustrates the
progressive development of a strategic workforce development system in a small city-state with a
rapidly changing economy that shifted from a developing to advanced economy in just a few
decades. The tool is part of the World Bank’s initiative on Systems Assessment for Better
Education Results (SABER), focusing on several policy domains including workforce
development. Three broad functional dimensions of workforce development policies were
assessed based on a wide range of primary and secondary evidence: strategic framework; system
oversight; and service delivery. The findings show that Singapore has made continuous progress
on all dimensions, representing a highly advanced system by 2010 but also one that continues to
adapt and innovate nonetheless.
Economic and social development
Workers participation
Asia and the Pacific
