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Thematic Areas: Inclusion and Youth | Digital Transformation | Private Sector Engagement | SDGs and Greening TVET
Our Key Programmes & Projects: BILT: Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET | Building TVET resilience | TVET Leadership Programme | WYSD: World Youth Skills Day
Past Activities: COVID-19 response | i-hubs project | TVET Global Forums | Virtual Conferences | YEM Knowledge Portal
Our Services & Resources: Publications | TVET Forum | TVET Country Profiles | TVETipedia Glossary | Innovative and Promising Practices | Entrepreneurial Learning Guide
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In this issue: * TVET sector resilience in the face of disruptive global challenges * UN Transforming Education Summit: Over 130 countries heed call to reboot education systems * Save the date: Launch of the UNESCO strategy for TVET 2022-2029 * R ...
In this issue: * Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET: The Self-Reflection Tool * Toolkits for TVET providers: a new online platform to bring toolkits into one place * Scaffolding digital skills to the future * The new UNESCO Strategy for TVE ...
In this issue: * Building TVET resilience for a just and sustainable transition * The BILT project peer learning wheel * Linking skills to needs with non-state actors – lessons from the 2021/2 GEM Report * Updates from the UNEVOC Network * Lau ...
Digitalization has led to extensive changes in the skills required for work and life. For technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions to remain relevant and attractive, they need to identify and introduce digital skills and co ...
The UNEVOC Network is UNESCO-UNEVOC’s global platform of TVET institutions that work together to contribute to improving the standards and quality of TVET in their respective countries and globally. This Handbook serves as a set of guidelines for N ...
In this issue: * Capacity-building webinars on entrepreneurial learning in TVET * UNESCO-UNEVOC’s TVET Leadership Programme boosts skills for the digital transformation * WorldSkills Conference 2021: Job-rich opportunities of the green transitio ...
Adapting to the new normal
This report gives an overview of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre's activities during the biennium 2020 - 2021. It highlights how UNESCO-UNEVOC has supported Member States in their efforts to strengthen and upgrade TVET systems and promoted opp ...
TVET delivery: providing innovative solutions
This volume focuses on the micro-level stakeholders involved in the implementation of TVET skilling programmes and/or their components. It will suit lecturers, administrators and programme designers interested in understanding some of the challenges ...
TVET advocacy: ensuring multi-stakeholder participation
This volume addresses the role of meso-level TVET stakeholders in the process of maintaining and updating TVET systems to ensure they remain fit for purpose. Meso-level stakeholders indicate institutions participating in the advancement of TVET syste ...
TVET governance: steering collective action
This volume is written with the macrolevel or system-level stakeholder in mind. Macro level stakeholders can be any number of bodies with a mandate for collective action in TVET. This primarily covers ministries and statutory bodies with legally assi ...
In this issue: * UNEVOC Network consultation on new UNESCO Strategy for TVET * Teachers at the heart of education recovery * Matching private sector trainings to the needs of the UNEVOC Network * UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Leadership Programme * Sustain ...
Due to its close links to the labour market, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) can play an important role to improve job opportunities and livelihoods for young people, and in particular for disadvantaged youth. However, this pot ...
In this issue: * Review of the COVID-19 response project * BILT bridging conferences Asia and Africa * Skills for the circular economy * Launch of EdTechTools: a global repository of education technology platforms * Interactive guide on entrepre ...
Key project results
UNESCO-UNEVOC’s COVID-19 response project was implemented from January-June 2021. This report of the key project results provides a snapshot of activities that helped TVET institutions around the world address the short, medium and long-term effect ...
In this issue: * Announcement of UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET Leadership Programme 2021 * Managing the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in TVET * Launch of COVID-19 response project * Information on new publications and upcoming events
Artificial intelligence has produced new teaching and learning solutions that are now undergoing testing in different contexts. In addition to its impact on the education sector, AI is substantially altering labour markets, industrial services, agric ...
Enhancing TVET's contribution
Climate change is an ongoing process that, at the current pace of such activities, cannot be avoided. Tools have been proposed to deal with climate change focus on adaptation and mitigation. Strengthening national and international awareness of and c ...
Project flyer
This UNESCO-UNEVOC project will help TVET institutions around the world respond to short, medium and long-term challenges, and build resilience for the post-COVID-19 era.
The Medium-Term Strategy for 2021-2023 (MTS-III) sets out how UNESCO-UNEVOC will support TVET institutions to meet the demands of dynamic labour markets and provide quality skills training for a sustainable future of work. MTS-III focuses on developi ...
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-related technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has a potentially significant role to play in providing the skills and competencies required to support innovation, productivity an ...
A practical guide
This guide is also available in an [https://unevoc.unesco.org/elg interactive online version]. You can view an introductory video on the practical guide [https://youtu.be/tuY58QuidMg here].
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in ...
November 2020
The eleventh issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter focuses on UNESCO's response to ensure continuity of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the challenges that TVET teachers and learners have faced in moving to online learning.
In this issue: * Winners of Skills in Action Photo Competition * Developments in BILT innovation project * New promising and innovative practices * Information on new publications
A challenge for TVET programmes and careers
While technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has the potential to bolster the participation of women in the labour market, this potential is not always well understood and capitalized on. In general, female students are lowly represen ...
Trends Mapping Study
This Trends Mapping Study is part of the Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET project. It draws on a selection of relevant literature, the data collected from the UNEVOC Network using an online survey and focus group activities, as well as on inf ...