The Skills Gap

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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