an international perspective: the importance of skills and vocational education
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An international perspective: the importance of skills and vocational education
Deborah RoseveareHead, Skills beyond School DivisionOECD16 November 2012
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What OECD is International organisation 34 member countries (and EU) Established over 50 years ago Mission: to promote better policies
for better lives
What is the OECD and how does it work?
How we work Engage governments and also a wide
range of stakeholders Produce comparative data and
evidence Compare policy experiences across
countries to draw together lessons and policy options for countries
link together policies across different sectors to achieve better outcomes
educationstatistics
economicsenvironment
health
competition
taxation
migration
corruptiongovernance
social policy
investmenttrade
agriculture
development
pensions insuranceinnovation
entrepreneurship
labour markets
gender
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Why do skills matter to countries?
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Why do skills matter to people?
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How can we improve skills and their use?
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OECD Skills Strategy
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How does a country maximise its skills?
Developing relevant skills
Encouraging and enabling people to learn throughout life
Fostering international mobility of skilled people to fill skills gaps
Promoting cross-border skills policies
Activating skills supply
Putting skills to effective use
Encouraging people to offer their skills to the labour market
Retaining skilled people in the labour market
Creating a better match between people’s skills and the requirements of their job
Increasing the demand for high-level skills
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Taking the OECD Skills Strategy forward
Developing national and local skills
strategies
Enhancing the
evidence base
Anticipating and responding flexibly to changing skill needs
Enhancing
vocational education
and training
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What we know about successful skills strategies and employer engagement?
Greater economic competitiveness – for countries, for sectors and for individual firms
Higher quality jobs, more productive workforce More sustainable economic and social outcomes
Skills are a long-term investment for growth and productivity
Skills need to be relevant for growth and productivity
Employers need to be engaged in skills development
Relevant through time – immediate, evolving and longer term skill needs
Relevant mix of foundation skills, technical skills and generic/life skills (teamwork, communication, initiative, problem solving etc)
Employers know about what skills they need Employers can transform their workplaces to
make the most of skills Employers benefit from supporting investments up
and down the supply chain
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What we know about how to enhance VET* through employer engagement?
VET works best when responsive to labour market needs
Employers know labour market needs best Employers need to be involved in:
Designing curricula and qualifications Monitoring emerging requirements Developing workplace training
arrangements Other stakeholders also need to be involved
* Vocational Education and Training
VET works best when combining workplace and classroom learning
Workplaces offer real on-the-job experience for learning hard and soft skills
Workplace learning lets potential employers and employees learn about each other
Employer willingness to offer workplace training signals that a VET programme is relevant
Workplace learning helps to keep student places aligned with likely future employment demand
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To learn more…..
On skills, check out our online skills portal skills.oecd up-to-date information on skills work at OECD country-specific skills data and analysis OECD Skills Strategy
On vocational education and training
www.oecd.org/edu/vet
For all OECD data, analysis and policy advice
www.oecd.org
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