E-learning course on social partner's involvement in skills development
English
ILO
The International Labour Organization is the tripartite U.N. agency that promotes Decent Work through employment, social security, labour standards and social dialogue. Its work on skills development is guided by the conceptual framework on Skills to improve productivity, employment growth, and development agreed in 2008 by representatives of Governments, Employers’ Associations and Workers’ Associations. Research, policy advice, and pilot projects and technical cooperation programmes to apply good practices in different circumstances across its 185 member States aims to boost the employability of workers, the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, and the inclusiveness of economic growth. The ILO Secretariat in offices in 40 countries works with Ministries of Labour, employers’ organizations, and trade unions to integrate skills development into national and sector development strategies in order to better meet current labour market needs and to prepare for the jobs of the future; to expand access to employment-related training so that youth, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are better able to acquire skills and secure productive and decent work; and to improve the ability of public employment services to provide career guidance, maintain labour exchange services, and deliver active labour market programmes.For more information regarding the ILO’s work on skills and employability go to: http://www.ilo.org/skills/lang--en/index.htm; for ILO/Cinterfor's Knowledge Management Plarform, see: http://www.oitcinterfor.org
Skills policies and strategies
Skills and employment policies should be viewed together. The full value of one policy set is realized when it supports the objectives of the other. For investments in education and training to yield maximum benefit to workers, enterprises, and economies, countries’ capacities for coordination is critical in three areas: connecting basic education to technical training and then to market entry; ensuring continuous communication between employers and training providers so that training meets the needs and aspirations of workers and enterprises, and integrating skills development policies with industrial, investment, trade, technology, environmental, rural and local development policies.
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Introduction to the course
The ITCILO, in close cooperation with the ILO's ACTEMP and ACTRAV bureaux and the SKILLS branch, is organizing this course to enable social partners' representatives to reflect on and discuss their involvement in skills-development systems, building on best practices from around the world. Their contribution at national, sectoral and enterprise levels is key to ensuring the relevance and quality of training programmes, minimizing skills mismatches and thus improving business sustainability and enhancing opportunities for decent work. This e-Learning training offer is part of the ITCILO's Skills Development portfolio, which aims to tackle worldwide capacity-building needs and support the implementation of TVET and skills-development programmes.
Who attends this course?
Members or staff of employers' or workers' organizations interested in skills development, in particular, representatives of skills councils, national TVET authorities, qualification agencies and similar institutions; employers and workers working in close connection with TVET Centres; HR managers and trade-union representatives involved in skills-related agreements; employers and workers involved in work-based learning and apprenticeships.
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