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All resources on education and development including materials on access and participation; adult, higher and vocational education; curriculum, learning, and teaching; education and health; girls’ education; policy finance and governance; quality of learning outcomes; sex education; and violence, conflict and emergencies.
Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives – Highlights of the OECD Skills Strategy
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September 7, 2015

Skills transform lives and drive economies. Skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies. There is evidence that countries can do better in developing and using the skills that are available to them. Building on its whole-of-government approach to policy making and its unique evidence base, the OECD has developed a global Skills Strategy… Read more

Employment policy, Vocational Skills
The OECD skills strategy and the education agenda for development
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September 7, 2015

There is increased recognition of the important that skills policies need to play in the post-2015 agenda. International organisations are presenting their views on the global situation of skills and the policies that should be implemented. The article reviews the policy framework of the OECD Skills Strategy and its implications for the education and development… Read more

Employment policy, Vocational Skills
Shifting Understandings of Skills in South Africa: Overcoming the historical imprint of a low skills regime
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September 7, 2015

The objective of this ebook is to critically engage with South Africa’s current skills development strategy and to analyse the prospects for a successful upskilling of the population. It contains chapters written by leading South African academics. It also includes content from skillsformation systems experts. This ebook attempts to examine what is understood by the… Read more

Employability, Vocational Skills
Demand and Supply of Skills in Ghana: How Can Training Programs Improve Employment?
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September 7, 2015

As many as 24 million youths live in Ghana. In the last 20 years it has shown impressive gains in economic growth and in poverty reduction. Sustained growth requires three steps: Increase productivity in the strategic economic sectors Diversify the economy Expand employment Raising the quality and quantity of skills provides a contribution to these… Read more

TVET, Vocational Skills, Youth Employment
Youth and rural development: Evidence from 25 school-to-work transition surveys
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September 7, 2015

This report uses data from the school-to-work transitions surveys (SWTSs) from 2012-2013. It assesses the labour market conditions of youth in rural and urban areas. From this perspective it offers insights into prospects for fundamental transformations of rural sectors within the development process. While confirming some blurring between rural and urban areas in terms of… Read more

Vocational Skills, Youth Employment
Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence
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September 7, 2015

This paper offers a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for the general training they receive. The superior information of the current employer regarding its employees’ abilities relative to other firms creates ex post monopsony power, and encourages this employer to provide and pay for training, even if these skills are general. The… Read more

employment, Vocational Skills
Institutional Assessment of Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority
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September 7, 2015

Quality training that allows young people to find work is essential for economic and social development. This working paper assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (STEVTA) as a provincial apex body in Technical Education and Vocational Training (TVET). STEVTA has reduced fragmentation of training policies and programs…. Read more

Post-Basic Education and Training in Rwanda: Skills Development for Dynamic Economic Growth
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September 7, 2015

This report details the key aspects of the Rwandan education sector. It highlights quality improvement in basic education. It takes the perspective that Rwanda’s Post-Basic Education and Training (PBET) system is main method of skilled labour force generation, helping Rwanda with the transition towards a middle-income, knowledge- and expert-based economy. PBET is defined as all… Read more

Educational system, Vocational Skills
Capacity development for education for all (CapEFA): Translating theory into practice
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September 7, 2015

UNESCO’s 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report suggests that national barriers to Education for All (EFA) have been largely under-estimated and that, over the past decade, insufficient attention has been paid to strategies for overcoming them. This report offers reflection upon UNESCO’s capacity development approach and details achievements and lessons learned through the CapEFA… Read more

Education
BRICS Building Education for the Future
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September 7, 2015

This paper reports a comparative analysis of education trends in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Collectively these countries have emerging economies and are known as BRICS. The analysis indicates that the BRICS have shared aspirations but different development trajectories. There are good opportunities for educational progression through knowledge exchange and joint activities. Following… Read more

BRICS, TVET, Vocational Skills
The geopolitics and meanings of India’s massive skills development ambitions
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September 7, 2015

This study considers the drivers and meanings behind the dramatic rise of TVET in the policy and political agenda of India. It explores assumptions about the existing traditions and character of India’s culture and cultures of skills development. There is a paucity of long-term research on the TVET/skills development sector, although the recent growth in… Read more

employment, TVET, Vocational Skills
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