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The Skills GapOverview of Recent Policy Debates
Webinar, 1 July 2014
Webinar Agenda, 1 June 2014
• International Labour Conference – June 2014• Recurrent discussion on employment
• ILO Knowledge Platform
• OECD Work on Skills
• G20 OECD ILO Conference on Apprenticeships – 9 April 2014
• Global Apprenticeship Network
ILC: Different Challenges• Skills gap
• Unemployment of graduates
• Increasing precariousness of work
• Informality and low productivity
• Skills mismatch
• Brain drain
• Loss of skills and increasing structural unemployment
• Concerns about youth, women, migrants, disabled, ethnic groups
Skills Gap Solutions - Basics
• Proactive generation of productive employment opportunities
• Minimum wages
• Social protection systems
• Entrepreneurship and skills development programmes
• Policy coherence among government agencies
Skills Gap Solutions
• Better alignment of education and training• Literacy, numeracy and problem-solving
• Better labour market information systems
• Sectoral training programmes
• OJT and apprenticeships
• Career guidance services for students
Skills Gap Solutions
• National job placement programmes
• Placement programmes targeted to the unemployed
• Skills training more demand-driven • Better knowledge base of what is needed
• Investment in advisory research and innovation capacity
Skills Gap Targeted Approaches
• Skills certification programmes
• Sector specific training • Targeted training for industry-recognized skills
• Targeting traditional industry areas for transition
Skills Gap Targeted Approaches
• Apprenticeships and internships for youth
• Non-traditional training for women
• Assistance for integrating migrants into the workforce • Skills recognition from other countries
• Incentives for persons with disabilities
ILC Skills Policy and Employability
• Promote social dialogue
• Assist skills strategies for specific sectors
• Assist skills strategies for SMEs
• Deepen research on skills mismatches
• Build knowledge base and tools for anticipating future skills needs
ILC Skills and Employability cont.
• Build knowledge base and tools for lifelong learning
• Good practices on apprenticeship systems
• Research and policy advice on targeting for• Youth, women, older populations
• Vulnerable and disadvantaged populations
ILO Services
• Public-private knowledge sharing platform
• National skills policies
• Promote tools on skills anticipation
• Develop apprenticeship schemes
• School to work transition programmes
OECD Services
• Develop, supply and use of skills
• Working with youth/ageing socieities
• Skills mismatches and shortages
• Brain drain
• New and emerging skills
Global Apprenticeship Network
• Stimulated by G20 and B20 employment initiatives
• Exchange of best practices among companies and business associations
• Board: Samsung, Teléfonica, Adecco Group, Ericsson, Huawei, UBS and Jindal Steel and Power
• Secretariat support at the IOE
European Union Priorities +2015
• Access and completion of basic education
• Comprehensive, basic, transferrable and technical skills
• Eliminate inequality in education
• Improve links between education, research and innovation
• Promote knowledge creation and sharing Breast milk substitutes
African Union Priorities +2015
• Enhancing technical capacities through training and diffusion
• Access to financing of home-grown innovation
• Improving science and technology component in education
• Enable investment for innovation and R&D
African Union Priorities +2015
• Improve quality and invest in education infrastructure
• Increase use of ICT
• Higher completion rates, integrated with pre-schooling and adulty
• Improve quality and conditions of educators
• Gender parity
• School curriculum
WSIS+10 and ICTs
• Emphasis on youth and bridging the digital divide
• E-learning options
• Action lines encompassing governance, infrastructure, access, capacity, security
• Also enabling environment, ICT applications, cultural divide, media and ethical dimensions
Webinar, 1 July 2014
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