Vocational education and training - VET

Skills development initiatives can help prevent conflict and strengthen peace in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. If designed or adapted appropriately, they can strengthen inclusive social dialogue and trust between groups and increase people’s sense of inclusion and their resilience to disruption and violence, through increased employability. Peace can be achieved by adopting peace and conflict analysis, conflict- and gender-sensitivity measures, a social dialogue- based approach, and a strong focus on fairness and inclusion.

The ILO developed "Greening TVET and skills development: A practical guidance tool” to support TVET stakeholders to mainstream skills for the green transition in TVET and skills development in a systemic and holistic manner. The tool provides “how-to” guidance on designing competency standards and curricula for greener jobs, adapting training delivery and assessments to support greener learning, adapting practices to maintain a greener campus, capacitating teachers and trainers, and sensitizing enterprises.

The guidance tool takes into account countries at different levels of economic development and has been designed to support countries in taking stock of achievements in respect of greening TVET and skills development and focusing on areas where improvements are still needed. It will contribute to a better understanding of how to design, implement, monitor and evaluate the greening TVET agenda in all country contexts, with a view to transforming TVET practices and training and so equipping the current and future workforce with relevant skills for a green, just and inclusive transition.

ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT-3.5 architecture. It can generate human-like text based on input prompts, answer questions, and perform a variety of natural language processing tasks. It was trained on a massive dataset of internet text to learn patterns and relationships in language.

Dreaming of a change? Of broadening your horizons and moving to another country? If you are thinking of finding a job somewhere else in the EU, check out what guidance and protection are available.
It is never too late to think about change to a new job or retraining in something totally new in another EU country. That is the advantage of EU rules on freedom of movement, which have already provided opportunities for employment breakthroughs for millions of Europeans. If you are an EU citizen wanting to embark on a new path by finding a job in another EU country that matches your skills, needs, and most of all, your professional and personal aspirations, here is some practical information and guidance.
If you have been hesitating or do not know where to start, these personal stories, a five-step roadmap and a guide to the four principles governing your social security rights should help.

The “Great Resignation,” “Turnover Tsunami” or the “Big Quit,” whatever you choose to call it, the trend of job departures in the last few years has been unnerving for organizations. The workforce is taking stock of their careers and reevaluating their priorities. In 2020 alone, 40% of U.S. workers have changed jobs, managers, or roles. Employees are craving new opportunities for personal growth and learning to help them sharpen or build skills. If your people don’t believe those opportunities exist at your organization, they will look elsewhere.

To stem the turnover tide, organizations must connect their people to more personalized learning, critical skills development, and give employees control over their career paths and opportunities for growth. Workers who can see what internal growth opportunities are available within the organization are more likely to stay, as they can chart and track their progress towards the career path they desire.

Exposing your people to a wide variety of roles will help them gain a greater range of skills, be more collaborative across business areas and be more productive. And you’ll experience a massive increase in time-to-productivity as your “new” hires will already have most or all of their corporate onboarding done before even assuming the new role. Using your own people as a talent pool for filling job requisitions has a ton of great benefits.

Use this checklist as a reference guide to ensure your organization has the tools it needs to plan, facilitate and execute a great internal talent mobility program.

The learner’s experience is pivotal to whether or not the learning will stick. Their experience doesn’t start when they enter the classroom, it starts when they sign up for the course. Are you doing everything you can to make that process painless and exciting?

Looking to implement microlearning but not sure where to start? Or do you need some help identifying a microlearning use case that will enhance your existing training programs? Either way, we have great news: when it comes to microlearning, the possibilities are nearly endless.

This guide shares nine of the top ways organizations are leveraging this science-backed practice to train and develop high-performing employees. From the primary use cases of knowledge reinforcement and assessments to boosting employee engagement and tracking performance, you’ll learn practical strategies you can implement right away to improve training effectiveness!

Publicly available generative AI (GenAI) tools are rapidly emerging, and the release of iterative versions is outpacing the adaptation of national regulatory frameworks. The absence of national regulations on GenAI in most countries leaves the data privacy of users unprotected and educational institutions largely unprepared to validate the tools.

 

UNESCO’s first global guidance on GenAI in education aims to support countries to implement immediate actions, plan long-term policies and develop human capacity to ensure a human-centred vision of these new technologies. The guidance presents an assessment of potential risks GenAI could pose to core humanistic values that promote human agency, inclusion, equity, gender equality, linguistic and cultural diversities, as well as plural opinions and expressions.

 

The Quick Start Guide is a short, jargon-free downloadable guide that provides an overview of how ChatGPT works and explains how it can be used in higher education. The Quick Start Guide raises some of the main challenges and ethical implications of AI in higher education and offers practical steps that higher education institutions can take.

This Guide is dedicated particularly to those who inform and advise this group of Europe-wide mobile workers, including especially the EURES advisers who are trained by the European Commission in issues of the mobility of workers at transnational and cross-border level and are active in employment services, trade unions or employers’ organisations.
Those who (want to) work in another country, have many questions, for example:
Do I need a work permit?
Will my professional qualification be recognised?
Which labour applies to me?
What do I have to if I am unemployed?
In which country do I have to pay taxes?

Pursuant to Law n° 2014-288 of 5 March 2014 on vocational training, employment and social democracy, decentralisation to the regions is regulated by allocating competences, which were previously a responsibility of the central State, in the field of vocational training, apprenticeship and guidance. This reform strengthens the power of regional councils in this area, by integrating lifelong guidance issues into their competences, with limited action on pupil and student guidance policy.