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A global standard for lifelong learning and worker engagement to support advanced manufacturing

A global standard for lifelong learning and worker engagement to support advanced manufacturing

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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.

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Lifelong learning

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There is a critical need for a greater overall investment in education and training, particularly in developing countries. Education and training investments should be closely linked to economic and employment growth strategies and programmes. Responsibility should be shared between the government (primary responsibility), enterprises, the social partners, and the individual. To make lifelong learning for all a reality, countries will need to make major reforms of their vocational and education and training systems. School-to-work schemes for young people should integrate education with workplace learning. Training systems need to become more flexible and responsive to rapidly changing skill requirements. Reforms should also focus on how learning can be facilitated, not just on training for specific occupational categories.

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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. 

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13 Jan 2020
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edmsp1_253824.pdf
The full benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution can be realized and broadly shared only if the workforce is provided with adequate opportunities for continuous training and is fully engaged in the processes of designing and implementing advanced manufacturing technologies and changing work systems. This will require new forms of collaboration from business, labour, education and government stakeholders.

In this paper, the World Economic Forum establishes six guiding principles to support the creation of international standards for lifelong learning and worker engagement in advanced manufacturing. The examples provide evidence of how some of these stakeholders are already working to manage the transformations in technology and work in this integrated fashion.
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Lifelong learning

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Manufacturing

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manufacturing
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The future of manufacturing in Europe

The future of manufacturing in Europe

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The future of manufacturing in Europe
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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.

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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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. 

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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. 

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22 Jul 2019
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The pilot project The Future of Manufacturing in Europe is an explorative and future-oriented study. It explores the future adoption of some key game-changing technologies and how this adoption can be promoted, even regionally. The analysis of implications for working life focuses primarily on tasks and skills, not only at the white-collar, tertiary-education level, but also for blue-collar occupations, including a focus on challenges facing national and company apprenticeship systems. The future orientation also includes quantitative estimates of the employment implications of the Paris Climate Agreement, of large increases in global tariffs and of radical automation. It also measures the return of previously offshored jobs to Europe. Other research examines how the deepening globalisation provides opportunities for small companies to engage in international supply chains. This final report summarises the 10 project reports, which are complemented by 47 case studies, 27 policy instruments and 4 associated publications.
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Industrial development

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industrial-development
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Industrial restructuring

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industrial-restructuring
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Manufacturing

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manufacturing
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Skills anticipation

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The Future of Manufacturing in Europe

The Future of Manufacturing in Europe

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11 Apr 2019
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04 Jun 2026
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Brussels, Belgium
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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.

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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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. 

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Eurofound is organizing a one-day conference on The Future of Manufacturing in Europe.

With key contributions from leading thinkers on the future of manufacturing, the event will bring together up to 80 industry experts, representatives of national and regional public authorities, social partners, academics and EU institutions to discuss how best to shape technological developments to promote economic growth and improve working conditions.

At the conference, Eurofound will present its latest findings on the Future of Manufacturing while four panel sessions will provide a wide-ranging forum in which participants can share experiences, concerns and the benefits of Industry 4.0.
There will be an opportunity to hear different perspectives on possible developments regarding manufacturing in Europe, as well as to explore questions such as:

- Will robots replace humans?
- Are blue-collar jobs turning white?
- What skills are required for new jobs?
- What is the future of work?

For more information please click on the link provided below.

The Future of Manufacturing in Europe
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Information and communication technologies

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Manufacturing

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manufacturing
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Adaptation of national apprenticeship systems to advanced manufacturing

Adaptation of national apprenticeship systems to advanced manufacturing

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Adaptation of national apprenticeship systems to advanced manufacturing
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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.

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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. 

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02 Nov 2018
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Future of manufacturing in Europe Apprenticeships combining alternating periods at the workplace and in training institutions are well suited to providing young people with an entry point into the labour market and to supplying enterprises with skilled workers. This report examines apprenticeship systems and practices in the manufacturing sector in five EU Member States (Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland and Italy) and two countries outside Europe (Australia and the USA), exploring reform processes in response to new skill requirements arising from technological change. The report highlights the variety of approaches to modernising national apprenticeship systems and sheds light on the many challenges posed by technological change. A promising avenue is to establish a coherent industrial policy framework that prioritises skills acquisition, supports the transition from initial to higher vocational and educational training, and assigns a central role to apprenticeship training in the context of the modernisation of manufacturing.
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Apprenticeships

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apprenticeships
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Labour market information

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Manufacturing

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manufacturing
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New tasks in old jobs: Drivers of change and implications for job quality

New tasks in old jobs: Drivers of change and implications for job quality

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New tasks in old jobs: Drivers of change and implications for job quality
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English

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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.

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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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. 

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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. 

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01 Oct 2018
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This overview report summarises the findings of 20 case studies looking at recent changes in the task content of five manufacturing occupations (car assemblers, meat processing workers, hand-packers, chemical products plant and machine operators and inspection engineers) as a result of factors such as digital transformations, globalisation and offshoring, increasing demand for high quality standards and sustainability. It also discusses some implications in terms of job quality and working life. Overall, the report highlights how qualitative contextual information can complement existing quantitative data, offering a richer understanding of changes in the content and nature of jobs.
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Manufacturing

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Skills upgrading

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Trouble in the Making?: The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development

Trouble in the Making?: The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development

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Trouble in the Making?: The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development
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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.

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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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. 

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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. 

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20 Nov 2017
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Globalization and new technologies are impacting the desirability and feasibility of what has historically been the most successful development strategy. Manufacturing has been seen as special, promising both productivity gains and job creation. But trade is slowing. Global value chains (GVC) are maturing. Robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and the Internet of things are shifting what makes locations attractive for production and threatening significant disruptions in employment. There is a risk of increased polarization, within countries and across countries.

Shifting the attention from high-income countries, this report takes the perspective of developing countries to ask:

-- If new technologies reduce the importance of low-wage labor, how can developing countries compete?

-- Do countries need to industrialize to develop?

-- How can countries at different levels of development take advantage of new opportunities?

Development strategies need to broaden. Different manufacturing sub-sectors can still provide productivity growth or jobs; fewer can deliver both. Many of the pro-development characteristics traditionally associated with manufacturing--tradability, scale, innovation, learning-by-doing--are increasingly features of services. With faster diffusion of technology, it will be all the more important for countries to improve the enabling environment, remain open to trade, and support capabilities of firms and workers to ensure future prosperity is shared.
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Manufacturing

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Policy convergence

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Private sector

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Skills and training policy

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Skills anticipation

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Sustainable development

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Technology

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technology
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Trade

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The skills gap in U.S manufacturing

The skills gap in U.S manufacturing

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The skills gap in U.S manufacturing
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Employers' organizations

Employers invest in training in order to improve productivity, innovate and adopt new technologies, and compete in changing markets. Case studies and research from individual employers and associations of employers on the Global KSP deal with apprenticeship and workplace skills provision, quality assurance and governance of training institutions, and employers’ roles in anticipating skill needs and in influencing national and sector policies on skills development.

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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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. 

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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. 

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18 Jul 2017
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Deloitte Consulting LLP and the Manufacturing Institute examine the nature and extent of the skills gap in manufacturing, the outlook over the next decade, as well as strategies for mitigating the impact of the gap. For years, manufacturers have reported a sizeable gap between the talent they need to keep growing their businesses and the talent they can actually find. Beyond today’s talent issues though, what do manufacturers need to address for future years? And, what is the trajectory of the skills gap over the next decade? Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute embarked on their third Skills Gap study, seeking to answer these pressing questions. The report reveals the issue is growing and is exacerbated by a number of factors that brings manufacturers to an inflection point that must be addressed in order to ensure viability and success of American-based operations as well as the nation’s economic prosperity as a whole
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Manufacturing

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Skills and training policy

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Cinco hechos: Sobre la capacitación en firma en America Latina y el Caribe

Cinco hechos: Sobre la capacitación en firma en America Latina y el Caribe

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Cinco hechos: Sobre la capacitación en firma en America Latina y el Caribe
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Spanish

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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.

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Access to training

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Access for all to good quality education, vocational training and workplace learning is a fundamental principle of social cohesion and economic growth. Some groups of people may require targeted attention if they are to benefit from education, training and employment opportunities.  

This is particularly the case for disadvantaged youth, lower skilled workers, people with disabilities, and people in rural communities. The attractiveness of vocational education and training is enhanced when combined with entrepreneurship training and when public policies encourage utilization of higher skills by business. 
 

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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. 

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25 Aug 2016
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Este estudio identifica cinco hechos principales sobre la capacitación en firma (CF) en la región de América Latina y el Caribe: 1. La CF incrementa la productividad de las firmas manufactureras más grandes. 2. Al menos una cuarta parte de las firmas formales ofrece capacitación a sus trabajadores. 3. La CF está orientada principalmente a los trabajadores más calificados y en habilidades específicas al oficio. 4. El porcentaje de empresas que usa apoyos públicos para la CF es bajo, en especial en el caso de las firmas pequeñas. 5. La innovación tecnológica y la demanda de personal calificado juegan un rol fundamental en las decisiones de capacitación de las empresas.

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Enterprises

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enterprises
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Human resources development

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human-resources-development
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Manufacturing

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manufacturing
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Vocational training

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Industry leadership in human resources development in Myanmar

Industry leadership in human resources development in Myanmar

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Industry leadership in human resources development in Myanmar
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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

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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. 

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Sectoral approaches

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Matching skills to labour market demand requires reliable sectoral and occupational information and institutions that connect employers with training providers.  Sector based strategies and institutions have proved effective in engaging all stakeholders in promoting both pre-employment training and life-long learning.

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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. 

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08 May 2015
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Emerging from decades of economic, social, and political isolation, Myanmar today shows potentials for advancing with a new developing paradigm based on inclusive growth and poverty reduction. Having embarked on an ambitious program of sweeping reforms to progressively integrate its economy with the global system, Myanmar is facing a period of transition which is inevitably characterized by challenges and opportunities.

To catch up the rapid growth, skill development is the crucial link to improve productivity, employment growth and socioeconomic development. The ILO Recommendation on Human Resources Development Recommendation 2004 (No. 195) provides guidance on the content of effective skills policies and systems. In 2009, the ILO drew on the agreed framework with the G20 Leaders to develop a training strategy to support innovation and growth. Countries that have succeeded in linking skills to productivity, employment and development have targeted three main objectives: matching supply to current demand for skills; helping workers and enterprises adjust to change; and anticipating and delivering skills needed in the future in order to sustain a dynamic development process.

This working paper discuss industry leadership of human resources development in Myanmar. It analyses the current supply of qualified human resources in Myanmar, mismatch between demand and supply by sector, as well as growth trends, investment climate and current policies and legislation. The paper provides recommendations to help narrow the gaps identified.
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Agriculture

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agriculture
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Energy

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energy
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Manufacturing

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manufacturing
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216

Sectoral approaches

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sectoral-approaches
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676

Skills anticipation

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677

Skills indicators

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skills-indicators
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653

Skills mismatch

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The supply of and demand for high-level STEM skills

The supply of and demand for high-level STEM skills

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The supply of and demand for high-level STEM skills
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English

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Governments

Governments hold a wealth of knowledge on skills development, and are increasingly realizing the value of learning from each others’ experiences. Their policy documents, programme evaluations, and research findings contain their experience and ideas on how to better link skills to employment

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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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. 

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skpAFSN
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anticipating-and-matching-skills-needs
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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. 

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05 Mar 2015
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Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills are crucial to innovation and growth. Studies have shown that innovation-active enterprises employ higher proportions of graduates in general and, in particular, a higher proportion of STEM graduates than their non-innovative counterparts (CIHE, 2007 p. 17).

It has also been argued that STEM shortages, particularly at graduate and post-graduate levels, have detrimentally affected the performance of the UK economy. The present report is an attempt to look in more depth at the supply of and demand for STEM degree holders, as well as exploring the extent and nature of market imbalances.
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Economic recovery

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economic-recovery
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667

Engineering

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engineering
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212

Manufacturing

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manufacturing
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216

Skills anticipation

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skills-anticipation
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677

Technology

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technology
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