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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 | Toolkits for TVET Providers | Entrepreneurial Learning Guide
Events: Major TVET Events | UNEVOC Network News
The development of an effective TVET system is at the heart of education reform efforts. The chosen system establishes a framework which influences such important matters as access to, and the quality of, TVET. As part of Education for All (EFA), UNESCO-UNEVOC and its networks help UNESCO Member States develop TVET systems that best suit their particular needs and requirements.
Our activities
UNEVOC Book Series 12: International Comparisons of China's TVET System, 2010
International Experts Meeting on Education and Training for the Changing World of Work Hangzhou, China, 7-9 December 2009
International conference: Harnessing Qualifications Frameworks Towards Quality Assurance in TVET in Asia, Manila, Philippines, 30 November - 2 December 2009
Workshops: TVET financing and competency-based approaches, Tunis, Tunisia, November 2009
National seminar: Review of the TVET System in Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2-3 November 2009
Linking Vocational Training with the Enterprises - Asian Perspectives, November 2009
Workshop on Revitalizing TVET Provision in ECOWAS Countries, Abuja, Nigeria, 17-20 August 2009
Reform and Development of TVET, UNEVOC sub-regional conference-cum-seminar, Maputo, Mozambique, 15 -17 July 2009
Study Tour by a Delegation of the Atlanta Technical College, UNEVOC Secretariat, UN Campus, Bonn, Germany, 18 September 2008
Qualification Frameworks and Competency-based Approaches in TVET - Mobile Training Team of West African UNEVOC Centres in Mauritius, Mauritius, 17-21 June 2007
South East European TVET leaders meet in Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia, 4-6 June 2007
Fourth International Congress on Quality Management in Systems of Education and Training (CIMQUSEF 2007), Casablanca, Morocco, 17-19 April 2007
National Conference on Rethinking Education, Majuro, Marshall Islands, 28 February-2 March 2007
Study Tour on Public Private Partnership on the Arab States, 10-14 December 2006
Roundtable on TVET in Iraq, Bonn, Germany, 6 December 2006
15th IVETA International Conference, Moscow, Russia, 21-24 August 2006
Re-alignment of TVET in Iraq with Employment Requirements, Cairo, Egypt, 17-19 July 2006
Promoting Social Partnership in Central Asia, 2005/2006
G8-BMENA Initiative to improve relevance of TVET to the labour market, Amman, Jordan, 28-29 September 2005
Cooperative Responses to TVET Reform in the Arab States, Amman, Jordan, 25–27 August 2005
The following major UNESCO conferences (the "Seoul Congress" and "Seoul+5") were standard-setting with regards to TVET:
UNESCO International Experts Meeting Learning for Work, Citizenship and Sustainability, Bonn, October 2004
Second International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education, Seoul, South Korea, 1999
Resources
Revised Recommendation concerning Technical and Vocational Education (UNESCO, 2002)
English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Chinese (PDF, 250KB) | Russian
Convention on Technical and Vocational Education (UNESCO, 1989)
English | French | Spanish | Arabic | Chinese | Russian (PDF, 100KB)
Improving the Quality of Education and Training through the UNEVOC Networks, presentation at First China International TVE Summit Forum, Shenzhen, 19 May 2006
IIEP Newsletter Vol. XXII, No. 3, July – September 2004 on Exploring Vocational Education Reform
Technical and Vocational Skills Development: a DFID practice paper, April 2007 (PDF 357 KB)
Education and Training out of Poverty? A Status Report, NORRAG News, No. 37, May 2006
Technical and Vocational Skills Development, NORRAG News, No. 38, January 2007 PDF (356 KB)
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