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.

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Informe de seguimiento de la educación en el mundo 2019: Migración, desplazamiento y educación: Construyendo puentes, no muros (Resumen)

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Migrant workers

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According to the ILO global estimates on migrant workers, there were around 164 million migrant workers in 2017.

Migrant workers contribute to growth and development in their countries of destination, while countries of origin greatly benefit from their remittances and the skills acquired during their migration experience. Yet, many migrant workers face challenges in accessing quality training and decent jobs including under-utilization of skills, a lack of employment or training opportunities, lack of information, and exploitation of low-skilled workers.

To address these challenges, countries need to strengthen skills anticipation systems to inform migration policies, increase access to education and training, and establish bilateral or multilateral recognition of qualifications and skills.

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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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Publication Date:

20 Nov 2018

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edmsp1_228426.pdf

Este informe considera migraciones y desplazamientos desde el punto de vista de los maestros y administradores de educación que se enfrentan a la realidad y diversidad de las aulas, patios de recreo, comunidades, mercados laborales y sociedades.

Los sistemas educativos del mundo entero están unidos en su compromiso por 'garantizar una educación inclusiva, equitativa y de calidad y promover oportunidades de aprendizaje durante toda la vida para todos' y 'no dejar a nadie atrás'. Para que todos los educandos puedan realizar su potencial, los sistemas deben adaptarse a sus necesidades, independientemente de su origen o procedencia. Deben asimismo responder a la necesidad de resiliencia de las sociedades y adaptarse a la migración y los desplazamientos; este reto afecta a los países sea cual fuere el tamaño de sus poblaciones de refugiados y migrantes.

El Informe de Seguimiento de la Educación en el Mundo 2019 examina los datos recopilados a nivel mundial acerca de la migración, los desplazamientos y la educación, y procura responder a las siguientes preguntas:
- ¿Cómo inciden los movimientos de población en el acceso y la calidad de la educación?
- ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias a nivel individual, para los migrantes y refugiados?
- ¿Cómo puede la educación cambiar la vida de las personas que migran y de las comunidades que las acogen?

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Education and training

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Migration policy

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UNESCO-UNEVOC: New TVET country profiles

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UNESCO-UNEVOC: New TVET country profiles

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Training quality and relevance

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Promotional material

Presentations, discussion papers, meeting reports, promotional materials, videos, fact sheets, brochures and newsletters on skills development for employment.

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Statistical information

Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.

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Publication Date:

16 Nov 2018

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New batch of 13 Country Profiles on the UNESCO-UNEVOC World Technical and Vocational Education and Training Database. These profiles provide an overview of the TVET ecosystem in each country including the learning pathways, key policy documents, governance and financing mechanisms, qualification and quality assurance systems, and ongoing reforms. The Country Profiles provide concise, reliable and up-to-date information on countries’ technical and vocational education and training systems around the world, which includes:
1. Key statistics;
2. TVET systems;
3. Key strategy and policy documents;
4. TVET teachers and trainers;
5. Qualification systems and quality assurance;
6. Current reforms and policy discussions.

These profiles are aimed at assisting TVET officials, experts and stakeholders, as well as researchers and students to develop a better understanding of different TVET systems and trends in TVET around the world.

The Country Profiles are the result of a collaboration between UNESCO-UNEVOC and the TVET stakeholders in each country, particularly the UNEVOC Network Members.

For more information, click on the link provided below.

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TVET systems

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Global

Conférence intergouvernementale pour l'adoption du Pacte mondial sur les migrations

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10 Dec 2019

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18 Jun 2026

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Marrakech, Morocco

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French

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Migrant workers

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According to the ILO global estimates on migrant workers, there were around 164 million migrant workers in 2017.

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L'objectif de cette conférence est d'adopter officiellement le Pacte mondial, comme se sont engagés les États Membres des Nations Unies le 13 juillet 2018.

Cette conférence est organisée sous les auspices de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies, à travers la résolution 71/1 du 19 septembre 2016, intitulée « Déclaration de New York pour les réfugiés et les migrants », selon laquelle les États Membres s'engagent à lancer un processus de négociations intergouvernementales devant conduire à l’adoption du pacte mondial.

L'objectif de cette conférence est d'adopter officiellement le Pacte mondial, comme se sont engagés les États Membres des Nations Unies le 13 juillet 2018.

La conférence devrait compter entre 5 000 et 6 000 participants.
La participation est ouverte :
- A tous les États Membres de l’Organisation des Nations Unies et de tous les membres des institutions spécialisées ayant qualité d’observateur auprès d’elle;
- Aux organisations intergouvernementales et autres entités ayant reçu une invitation permanente à participer en tant qu’observateurs à ses travaux et les organes et organismes des Nations Unies à prendre part, en qualité d’observateurs;
- A toutes les parties prenantes, notamment la société civile, le secteur privé, les établissements universitaires, les parlements, les communautés de la diaspora et les organisations de migrants.

Pour plus d’informations et pour s’inscrire cliquez sur le lien ci-dessous

Conférence intergouvernementale pour l'adoption du Pacte mondial sur les migrations

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Labour migration

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Migrant workers

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Global

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Building trust in a changing world of work

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Building trust in a changing world of work

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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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Other sources

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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Skills policies and strategies

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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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12 Nov 2018

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This is the first Flagship report for the ‘Global Deal for Decent Work and Inclusive Growth’ partnership – hereafter the Global Deal. The Global Deal is a global multi-stakeholder partnership whose objective is to jointly address the challenges in the global labour market and enable all people to benefit from globalisation. The fundamental idea at the heart of the Global Deal is to highlight and promote the potential of sound industrial relations and enhanced social dialogue as a means to foster decent work, quality jobs, and increased productivity – and by extension greater equality and inclusive growth. The Global Deal was initiated at the behest of the Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, and developed in cooperation with the ILO and the OECD. The partnership was launched in September 2016 with an initial core group of states, businesses, trade unions and other organisations. The rationale behind the Global Deal is that cooperation within and across a wide array of stakeholder groups is a key element for coming to terms with some of the complex challenges that impede human prosperity and well-being. The Global Deal thus aims to facilitate and advance that cooperation by providing political impetus, scaling up existing processes, promoting evidence-based research and highlighting the opportunities for ‘win-win-win’ gains that mutually benefit workers, businesses and governments.

The present report provides an international portrait of the foundations, trends and challenges connected to social dialogue and sound industrial relations. Furthermore, it aims to demonstrate the potential effects of social dialogue and highlights the Global Deal partnership as a vehicle for accelerating change and as a tool for delivering on the SDGs. This is the first of what is meant to be a recurring report, to be published every other year, and serve as the main tool for following up on the Global Deal partnership.

This report highlights the crucial role played by social partners in shaping the future of work, through workplace cooperation, collective bargaining between trade unions and employers, or their organisations, and tripartite social dialogue between the social partners and the government. Social partners can jointly decide what technologies to adopt, and how. They can contribute to manage transitions for displaced workers, help identify skills needs, develop education and training programmes, and participate in the delivery of the latter. They can also play a role in providing social protection for workers and in promoting concerted action to address gender disparities and issues of discrimination – both in the workplace and throughout global supply chains, but also in terms of representation within the institutions of social dialogue – thereby ensuring better social and labour market outcomes for women and greater prosperity for society as a whole.

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Development policy

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Governance

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Bridging the digital gender divide

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Bridging the digital gender divide

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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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02 Nov 2018

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Include, upskill, innovate This report presents the outcomes and findings of a multifaceted approach integrating complementary work, articulated around the following key areas of analysis:

1. The gender divide and digital technologies, providing an overview of the gender divide in access, uptake and usage of technological tools and the extent of digital financial inclusion worldwide, in particular regarding the use of ICT and digital platforms, mobile phones and digital payments by women.
2. Leapfrogging opportunities for reducing the gender gap, discussing some of the many opportunities that digital technologies offer for narrowing the digital gender divide.
3. Skills for the digital era, discussing how the pervasiveness of digital technologies changes the way individuals access and elaborate knowledge, understand and interact with the reality around them, and whether women and girls possess the (set of) skills allowing for a deeper understanding and meaningful use of digital technologies. The objective should be to equip women and girls with the skills needed to thrive in the digital era.
4. Jobs and skills in the digital transformation, shedding light on whether women are equipped with the skills needed to navigate the world of work in the digital economy; analysing the returns to skills, in terms of wages, for men and women in digital and less digital intensive sectors; and discussing how digital platforms can be leveraged to boost women's labour force participation and help achieve the G20 “25 by 25” goal.
5. Women and innovation, proposing a first-time analysis of the participation of women in innovation activities and output at the core of the digital transformation, i.e. both technological developments and open-source software. This section also includes an analysis of tech entrepreneurial activity as reflected in VC activity.
6. Learning from experience, presenting existing national practices for economic empowerment of women, drawing on a stocktaking exercise of national initiatives.
7. Bridging the digital gender divide: the role of policy, synthesising the main policy implications of the overall analysis and identifying possible policy directions for consideration by G20 governments.

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Globalization

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Global Education Meeting 2018

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03 Dec 2018

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18 Jun 2026

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Brussels, Belgium

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Monitoring and evaluation

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Measuring the outcomes of skills systems, policies and targeted programmes is essential in order to monitor and improve their effectiveness and relevance. Elements of sound assessment processes include: institutions to sustain feedback from employers and trainees; mechanisms to track labour market outcomes of training and systems of accountability that use this information; and, quantitative and qualitative labour market information and its dissemination to all stakeholders.

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Education in an Interconnected World: Ensuring inclusive and equitable development.

The 2018 Global Education Meeting will review progress towards the global education targets and commitments in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Global Meeting will bring the global community together to take stock of progress and identify strategic priority areas requiring political guidance and intervention for the effective achievement of the global Education 2030 Agenda.

This high-level gathering will be a milestone in the assessment of education policies, strategies and challenges in preparation for the 2019 High Level Political Forum (HLPF). The 2019 HLPF will review in-depth the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) focusing on Education (SDG4). As such, the 2019 HLPF theme “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality” will frame discussions at the GEM. Focus will be given to the inter-linkages between SDG 4 and Goals 8 (Decent work and economic growth), 10 (Reduced Inequalities), 13 (Climate action) and 16 (Peace, justice and strong Institutions), paying particular attention to the issue of migration, displacement and refugees.

The Global Education Meeting will gather some 300 participants including UN agencies and affiliated organizations, multilateral and bilateral agencies, regional organizations, the teaching profession, civil society organizations, the private sector, foundations, as well as youth and student representatives among others.

For more information, click on the link provided below.

Global Education Meeting 2018

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Inclusion

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Managing skills in a time of disruption

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Managing skills in a time of disruption

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English

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30 Oct 2018

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Key highlights of the UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Learning Forum At the international conference in Tangshan in 2017, UNESCO put a spotlight on the factors shaping the future technical and vocational education and training (TVET) landscape. These included shifts in the development paradigm towards sustainable development, and changes in demography, economic trends, the labour market and migration patterns.

Organized with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and in collaboration with the German National Commission for UNESCO and partners from the Inter-Agency Group on TVET and WorldSkills Internation, UNESCO-UNEVOC’s TVET Learning Forum on ‘Managing skills in times of disruption’ convened over 100 participants representing all sectors of the TVET community, including centres from the UNEVOC Network, from all five regions of the world.

The following report presents highlights of UNESCO-UNEVOC's TVET Learning Forum.

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Skills and training policy

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TVET systems

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Global

Skills on the Move

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Skills on the Move

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English

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Migrant workers

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According to the ILO global estimates on migrant workers, there were around 164 million migrant workers in 2017.

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30 Oct 2018

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Migrants in the survey of adult skills Migration has been at the centre of political debate across the OECD in recent years. Drawing on data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), this report provides new evidence on differences in migrants’ characteristics and contexts and considers how these relate to the skills migrants possess. It also examines the relationship between migrants’ skills and their labour and non-labour market outcomes in host countries. Finally, it sheds new light on how migrants’ skills are developed, used and valued in host country labour markets and societies. Results and lessons gleaned from analysis highlight the way forward for future research on this topic.

The report represents an invaluable resource for policy makers across different sectors as they design and implement strategies aimed at promoting the long-term integration of foreign-born populations in the economic and social life of their countries. The analyses presented allow us to identify the skill composition of foreign-born populations, the labour market and broader social outcomes associated with such skills, and the factors that can promote skill acquisition and skill use.

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Labour market information

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Migrant workers

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681

Skills indicators

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Global

Building tomorrow’s digital skills - what conclusions can we draw from international comparative indicators?

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English

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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30 Oct 2018

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Working Papers on Education Policy, No. 6 While digital technology plays an increasingly important role in our lives, and political systems are mobilizing to make the most of its leverage effect on innovation and economic growth, 56% of adults lack digital skills, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

This report looks at the conditions impacting the development of digital skills based on five international comparative surveys, the results of which reveal a sample group of twelve countries whose population have particularly high levels of digital skills.

Building on these results, this report seeks to answer two questions: what has enabled these countries to rise to the top of the rankings in terms of digital skills, and what can other countries to do catch up?

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Skills anticipation

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skills-anticipation

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677

Skills indicators

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skills-indicators

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653

Technology

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technology

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345

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Global

Making learning visible: Representing skills, competencies and qualifications

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Making learning visible: Representing skills, competencies and qualifications

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English

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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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Promotional material

Presentations, discussion papers, meeting reports, promotional materials, videos, fact sheets, brochures and newsletters on skills development for employment.

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30 Oct 2018

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This discussion paper is a direct outflow from the Shanghai Consensus and the Incheon declaration attention to lifelong learning and to recognising and valuing learning outcomes within and across countries. This discussion paper concerns recent trends and major challenges in developing effective and trustworthy representation of skills, competencies and qualifications. It starts with the recognition that today’s learning opportunities are limitless, borderless and immediate. It proposes a vision to reach a common international approach where all aspects of a person’s learning is electronically documented, authenticated and can be accessed at anytime and anywhere, shared and amended by the owner or by an authorised party.

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