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New Cedefop database ‘Matching skills: Inspiring policies for anticipating and matching skill needs'

New Cedefop database ‘Matching skills: Inspiring policies for anticipating and matching skill needs'

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

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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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11 Jan 2019
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The new Cedefop database ‘Matching skills: Inspiring policies for anticipating and matching skill needs’ presents education and training and labour market policy instruments in EU Member States that aim to match individuals’ skills (jobseekers and students) to current and anticipated labour market needs. The tool, which is designed for policy-makers working on education and training, skills, (active) labour market policy and related policy areas, showcases innovative and recently implemented policy instruments aimed at tackling unemployment or making vocational education and training (VET) more responsive to future labour market developments, using information on labour market trends and anticipated skill needs.

It helps understand, in a comparative manner, the approaches used and the rationales behind them; it provides information on practical organisation, funding and stakeholder involvement; it also provides insight on how innovative and successful a policy instrument is and whether it could be successfully applied elsewhere.

The database structures and displays information in a way that can be readily accessed and interpreted. It includes:
- 126 current skills matching policies – to aid jobseekers’ return to work and job mobility, and provide better guidance for school-to-work transitions;
- 31 anticipating future skills policies – to better prepare the workforce for the future of work;
- Comprehensive overviews for all EU Member States – to learn and understand what EU countries are doing to promote better skills matching;
- A map interface to quickly locate policy instruments in particular countries;
- A user feedback section and a template to report on additional skills matching policies in each Member State.

For more information, click on the link provided below.
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The Skills Summit

The Skills Summit

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27 Feb 2019
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17 Jun 2026
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London, UK
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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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The leading event for engagement between educators, employers & government, Skills Summit 2019 will feature two streams specifically tailored to the needs of 1. Education, Skills & Training Providers & 2. Employers. With plenary sessions covering issues of interest to all, attendees will be able to adapt the programme to suit their requirements.

Sessions of the 8th annual Skills Summit will include:
- Closing the skills gap, driving forwards apprenticeships schemes;
- Teenage apprenticeships: awareness deficit;
- The Industrial Strategy and skills after Brexit? ;
- Understanding regional employer needs;
- Creating degree based apprenticeships;
- T-Levels, a new career pathway;
- Recruiting more apprentices;
- Improving workplace skills;
- National Retraining Scheme;

Attend Skills Summit 2019 to:
- Receive an up to date brief on Government plans for UK skills;
- Better understand the direction of travel;
- Learn more about current initiatives and how they will impact your organisation;
- Network with and engage colleagues from across the skills sector.

For more information clcik on the link provided below.

The Skills Summit
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Breaking gender barriers in the World of Work

Breaking gender barriers in the 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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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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Breaking gender barriers in the World of Work

The 15 women featured in this book illustrate how they are breaking barriers in the world of work and the difference that their inclusion in formal skills-training has made.

The ILO has been working closely with the Government of Bangladesh to achieve a more gender-sensitive skills development policy and to correct gender imbalances in the formal training system. In 2014, the Canadian Government teamed up with the Government of Bangladesh and the ILO to fund the Bangladesh Skills for Employment and Productivity (B-SEP) Project and, through it, reached out to women of all ages – not just youth – and especially those living in remote and marginalized areas with skills training in non-traditional (male-dominated) occupations, followed by assistance with finding jobs that rely on those skills. The training included carpentry, furniture making, automotive mechanics, electronics, electrical trades, tour guiding, baking and food processing. The 15 women featured in this book illustrate how boundaries have been broken and the difference that their participation in basic skills-training programme has made. These are young women disadvantaged at birth by location or circumstance who have benefited from an unusual door opening to them.

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Employability

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh has a strong track record of growth and development, even in times of elevated global uncertainty.  A robust demographic dividend, strong ready-made garment exports, resilient remittance inflows, and stable macroeconomic conditions have supported rapid economic growth over the past two decades. A strong recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic continued in FY22, although a recent surge in commodity prices has presented new headwinds. 

Bangladesh reached lower-middle income status in 2015. It is on track to graduate from the UN’s Least Developed Countries list in 2026. Poverty declined from 43.5 percent in 1991 to 14.3 percent in 2016, based on the international poverty line of $1.90 a day (1).  

Like many of its Asian neighbours, Bangladesh faces a major challenge trying to develop modern, employability skills for tens of millions of young women and men. It has a large informal sector, which accounts for 94.7 percent of the total employment in 2017 (2). Youth continue to be highly affected by the lack of opportunities, with the share of youth aged 15-24 not in employment, education or training (NEET), estimated at 27.8 percent in 2020 (3). 

TVET has a huge role to play in equipping the vast young labour force of 15-29 years referred to as the country’s “demographic dividend” with employability skills and providing enhanced support services to ensure a better transition from school to work. TVET may also contribute to reducing poverty by providing employability skills, particularly to those who drop out of school early and to a large number of unemployed and underemployed adults.  

Despite many reform initiatives by the government, the TVET sector needs further strengthening through reform of policies and systems in the labour market.  Enhancing industry-relevance of TVET qualifications will furthermore require closer Government cooperation with the private sector. For one and a half decade, the ILO has worked closely with the Government of Bangladesh and its Social Partners to reform the TVET sector and to improve access for people to increase their skills and employability, in particular youth, women and people from other marginalized groups. 

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic had detrimental effects on the TVET sector, due to the nation-wide closure of all educational institutes for one and a half years, starting on 17 March 2020.  Most students’ learning was effectively abolished for this duration, and learning and certification was only possible through limited online learning facilities in existence at the time. Only recently has the TVET returned to its prior activity level. 

The ILO landmark programmes aim to strengthen and improve the environment for industry skills development, address the mismatch between the supply and demand for skills training, and drive the increased employability of millions of young women and men. ILO’s support to develop the skills system in Bangladesh has focused on skills system governance, development of skills policies and qualifications frameworks; delivery of quality skills training, expanding access to TVET, and involvement by the private sector.    

 

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(1) https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/bangladesh/overview

(2) https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/informality/

(3) https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/youth/

Country Assessment and Priority (CAP) – Bangladesh strategy for skills and lifelong learning (2022)

Situation Analysis of Bangladesh TVET Sector (2019) https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—asia/—ro-bangkok/—ilo-dhaka/documents/publication/wcms_735704.pdf_

Academia de desarrollo de competencias

Academia de desarrollo de competencias

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24 Jun 2019
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17 Jun 2026
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Turin, Italy
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Spanish

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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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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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Respondiendo a las necesidades actuales y futuras en el mercado laboral, la Academia ofrece una gama de oportunidades de aprendizaje en el campo del desarrollo de competencias y la educación y formación técnica y profesional (TVET), que abarca temas críticos de políticas e implementación.

La Academia se dirige a responsables políticos sénior, funcionarios técnicos y asesores de ministerios de trabajo, educación y otras agencias involucradas en el desarrollo de competencias y en las políticas de formación profesional; directivos y personal de alto nivel de autoridades nacionales de formación o instituciones similares; representantes de las organizaciones de empleadores o trabajadores que trabajen en el área del desarrollo de competencias y de la enseñanza y formación técnica y profesional; personal de programa de agencias de desarrollo nacionales, bilaterales o multilaterales que trabajen en programas de desarrollo de competencias y en la enseñanza y formación técnica y profesional; directores de instituciones de formación, responsables de desarrollo curricular y otros profesionales.

Fecha límite de inscripción: 17 Mayo 2019

Para más información, haga clic en el enlace que se proporciona a continuación.

Academia de desarrollo de competencias
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Skills and the Future of Work: Strategies for Inclusive Growth in Asia and the Pacific

Skills and the Future of Work: Strategies for Inclusive Growth in Asia and the Pacific

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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 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 2018
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Asia and the Pacific is a vast and diverse region that is undergoing rapid and significant change in its economies and the work that people do. By connecting the themes of 'skills', 'the future of work and 'inclusive growth, the book pushes the boundaries beyond the conventional areas of policy discussion. It examines how skills policy can be relevant not only to the rapidly changing world of work but also to the need for social inclusion. While continuous effort is needed to strengthen the system of skills provision, the book highlights the need for a future strategy to address not only 'what skills' and 'who gets access to training' but also whether and how these skills are having an impact on creating better employment and business outcomes. This requires greater appreciation of the demand side of skills and addressing skills issues in the context of, or in conjunction with, the evolving context of work.

The book brings together a wide-ranging set of discussions, analyses and perspectives by leading experts and practitioners that is designed to provoke major policy re-thinking.
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Skills For The Future: Managing Transition

Skills For The Future: Managing Transition

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21 Nov 2018
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17 Jun 2026
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Turin, Italie
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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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‘Skills for the Future: Managing Transition’ will be an opportunity to exchange views from the EU and beyond, explore ways to respond to a changing labour market from a skills perspective and to identify solutions.

How do global forces interact with local realities and how does this affect the demand for skills? How should governments, businesses, social partners, civil society, research institutions, communities and education and training providers work together to manage change? What skills policies work in different contexts?

To address these issues, and many more, the European Training Foundation, the EU Agency in charge of developing training and education in the EU neighbouring countries, is organising the conference ‘Skills for the Future: Managing transition’.

Taking stock of the outcomes of an ETF report on the future of work and skills presented during the event, participants will focus their discussions and vision around four main topics:
• Mastering global trends
• Tackling country-specific challenges
• Addressing the future of skills, education and training
• Supporting the transition toward the future

For more information, click on the link provided below.

Skills For The Future: Managing Transition
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Managing skills in a time of disruption

Managing skills in a time of disruption

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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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Training quality and relevance

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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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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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Making learning visible: Representing skills, competencies and qualifications

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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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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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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Lifelong learning

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Qualification frameworks

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Improving the image of TVET

Improving the image of TVET

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Improving the image of TVET
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English

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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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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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Virtual conference report: UNESCO-UNEVOC TVeT Forum, 16 to 24 July 2018. The virtual conference on ‘Improving the image of TVET’ was organized on the occasion of the 2018 World Youth Skills Day. UNESCO-UNEVOC follows the United Nations’ stride in celebrating World Youth Skills Day every year on 15 July, which raises awareness about the importance of youth skills development.

While the importance of TVET is increasingly recognized in international discourse and policies, the image of TVET can be quite challenging when compared with other educational pathways such as higher, academic education. Even in countries where there is a high-quality TVET system, initial enrollment in TVET is declining and many students continue to prefer to go to follow the academic education track as their first choice. The low image of TVET is therefore a universal concern.

There are multi-dimensional reasons influencing the image of TVET: poor quality, weak linkages with stakeholders particularly the industries, social stigma, cultural barriers, and a lack of qualified and competent teachers all contribute to the image of TVET. In order to understand these multidimensional factors in a deeper way, UNESCO-UNEVOC organized a virtual conference on ‘Improving the image of TVET’. Participants explored the varying and similar reasons behind the image of TVET in their countries, whilst emphasizing the responsibilities of all stakeholders, from the government to the community, to address this universal concern.

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Skills and training policy

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TVET systems

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Gestión de competencias en la era del cambio

Gestión de competencias en la era del cambio

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Gestión de competencias en la era del cambio
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Spanish

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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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30 Oct 2018
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Resultados clave del Foro Formativo de la EFTP UNESCO-UNEVOC.

En la conferencia internacional de Tangshan celebrada en 2017 para examinar el progreso registrado en la EFTP desde el Tercer Congreso Internacional de Shanghái (2012), la UNESCO llamó la atención sobre los factores que van a configurar el futuro horizonte de la educación y formación técnica y profesional (EFTP), como la transformación del paradigma económico hacia el desarrollo sostenible, los cambios en tendencias demográficas, económicas, en el mercado de empleo y en los patrones de migración.

Organizado con apoyo del Ministerio Federal alemán de Educación e Investigaciones (siglas en alemán BMBF) y del Ministerio Federal de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos (siglas en alemán BMZ), y con colaboración de la Comisión Nacional Alemana para la UNESCO y los socios Grupo Inter-agencias para la EFTP y WorldSkills International, este Foro Formativode la EFTP UNESCO-UNEVOC titulado “Gestión de competencias en la era del cambio” atrajo a más de 100 participantes de todos los sectores de la comunidad EFTP, entre ellos centros de la Red UNEVOC Network de las cinco regiones del planeta.

En el siguiente informe se presentan los aspectos más destacados del Foro de Aprendizaje sobre EFTP de UNESCO-UNEVOC.

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Skills and training policy

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TVET systems

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