Category Archives: Skills

TVET and skills development in the time of Covid-19

Posted on 28 April 2020 by GEM Report

By Paul Comyn, Senior Skills Specialist, ILO With less than 5 months since the first official reporting of a Coronavirus (COVID-19) case, we have almost arrived at a global paralysis of regular education and training provision. This unprecedented situation is … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, Skills, Training, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, out of school, skills training, TVET | 6 Comments

Literacy skills gaps: how do they change over time by wealth and by gender?

Posted on 10 May 2018 by GEM Report

While there is a focus internationally on measuring literacy and numeracy skills at age 15, as captured in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), at least two aspects are neglected in debates on learning achievement. First, literacy and … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Literacy, Skills, Testing, Uncategorized | Tagged Gender, literacy, numeracy, reading, target 4.6 | 3 Comments

From talking to creating jobs for Africa’s youth

Posted on 10 November 2017 by GEM Report

By John Mugo, Director of Youth and Talent, ZiziAfrique The inaugural Africa Talks Jobs (ATJ) conference has just ended at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. This was an African Union-European Union (AU-EU) bilateral conversation to highlight that 2017 … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Skills, Uncategorized | Tagged Africa, jobs, skills, skills training, Target 4.4, youth skills | 3 Comments

DigComp: A framework helping young people to use their digital skills to find work

Posted on 19 July 2017 by GEM Report

Today, in an everyday digital world surrounded by videogames, smartphones, digital social networks and online chats, still 45% of the European Union population and 37% of its labour force have insufficient digital skills. Having digital skills is nowadays also relevant … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Developed countries, digital literacy, Employment, europe, ICT, Skills, Uncategorized, Youth | Tagged digital literacy skills, digital skills, education, europe, european commission, ICT, ICT skills, Target 4.4, youth employment, youth skills | Leave a comment

Is the Paris agreement bad for the average worker?

Posted on 2 June 2017 by GEM Report

Last night, President Trump dealt a major blow to an agreement worked on for years to protect the environment by helping control carbon emissions. The reason, we were told during his late night speech, something he oft repeated while on … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Environment, Skills, Uncategorized | Tagged climate change, cop22, paris agreement, trump | Leave a comment

How can education help us rethink what we mean by prosperity?

Posted on 17 January 2017 by GEM Report

We need to reconceive what it means to prosper. The current prosperity enjoyed by pockets of people across the world has had a devastating impact on our natural environment and left too many people behind. Education is often held up … Continue reading →

Posted in Skills, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged davos, prosperity, skills, skills training, WEF | 2 Comments

Target 4.4 – What is at stake for monitoring progress on skills for work?

Posted on 20 October 2016 by GEM Report

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship Global monitoring of skills for decent work is likely to prove elusive because of … Continue reading →

Posted in data, Gender, monitoring, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Skills, Uncategorized | Tagged monitoring, monitoring sdg 4 blog series, SDG, SDG4, skills, skills training, Target 4.4 | 2 Comments

Afghan police better their lives – and others’ – with literacy

Posted on 26 September 2016 by GEM Report

Gul Rahman, a patrolman at Paktya Province prison security unit, Afghanistan, has greatly improved his ability to serve as a policeman as a result of his literacy class. He is married and the sole breadwinner for 12 family members. “Afghanistan … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, agricultural development, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Equality, legal aid, legal rights, Legislation, Literacy, Marginalization, peace, rural development, sdg, sdgs, Skills, Sustainable development, united nations | Tagged adult education, afghanistan, development, education, human rights, legal aid, target 4.6 | 4 Comments

Missing from school: the education challenge in sub-Saharan Africa

Posted on 20 July 2016 by GEM Report

Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and Aaron Benavot, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report With the Eurozone in turmoil and sluggish economic growth in the US and elsewhere, investors may well see sub-Saharan Africa – … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Gender, Learning, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Secondary school, Skills, Testing, Uncategorized | Tagged basic education, education, Education for All, equality, Gender, learning, primary education, SDGs, sustainable development | 2 Comments

Education is indispensable in strengthening the bonds that hold communities and societies together.

Posted on 16 November 2015 by GEM Report

The GMR is based at UNESCO headquarters in Paris and, while none of the Report team was directly affected by the weekend’s tragic events, a black mark has been left on us all. The impact is felt even more as … Continue reading →