Friday, February 24 2012

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NN46 - Towards a New Global World of Skills Development? - NOW ONLINE!!

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TVET’s Turn to Make its Mark

The years 2011-2012 are finally TVET’s turn. The Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report (GMR) for 2012 is dedicated to skills development, the last of the 6 EFA Dakar Goals to be analysed in depth. Concurrently, UNESCO has decided these are the years in which to develop a World TVET Report which will be the main document at the Third World Congress on TVET, scheduled for Shanghai 14-16 May 2012.

Norrag has also decided to mark 2011 with a special attention to skills development. For this reason, a study has been launched between three ERNWACA teams in Ghana, Burkina faso and Ivory Coast and NORRAG on the state of and needs for research on Skills development in these three countries. At the UKFIET biennial conference on Global Challenges for Education, in September 2011, NORRAG has organized, with others, a major section on Skills for Work in Changing Macro-economic Environments.

NORRAG NEWS 46 will be on the issue of skills development. Among other things, it will address the following questions:

  • What evidence is there of skills development contributing to poverty reduction, especially in informal sectors?
  • Can new apprenticeship approaches, formal and informal, play a role?
  • What linkages between youth, adult education and skills development are being promoted, and what can be learned from these second-chance opportunities?
  • Is there a realistic prospect of rehabilitating public providers of skills development in poorer countries?
  • What role can and should the private sector (both formal and informal) play in skills development and can this support social justice as well as economic efficiency?
  • What learning worldwide can be taken from the vogue for national and regional qualification frameworks?
  • What learning and life skills can be covered in EFA Dakar Goal 3?
  • What is the ‘culture of skills’ in different country contexts?
  • What role can various forms of international cooperation play in supporting skills development?

 

NORRAG is not an advocacy organisation; hence NORRAG News 46 will not be promoting a single storyline in NN46. Rather it will be looking critically at a whole series of lessons learned, best practices and proposed reforms, which will surely emerge from these analyses, whether at the global, regional or country level.

For information on NN46 on skills development, please email Kenneth.King@ed.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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