UNESCO Publications

Findings from a global survey of enterprises
The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously disrupted the skilling, upskilling and reskilling of employees, apprentices and interns in all types of enterprises and organizations around the world. To assess the impact of the pandemic, a global online survey o ...

This publication has been prepared by the Inter-Agency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training on skills mismatch in digitized labour markets, to support experts and policymakers who wish to engage in discussion on the potential of w ...

This case study examines how technical and vocational education and training (TVET) was organized during the state of emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland. The disruption accentuated the importance of flexibility within the education ...

Taking stock of the initial responses in technical and vocational education and training
This report is based on the findings of an interagency survey on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and skills development in the time of COVID-19. The online survey, which was targeted at TVET providers, policymakers and social p ...

This roadmap sets out the urgent challenges facing the planet and explores the next step UNESCO is taking in responding to them through education with detail on new emphases and actions. In order to build a follow-up to the Global Action Programme (G ...

Study based on seven African countries: Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa. Synthesis Report.
IIEP-UNESCO Dakar and the IFEF have carried out a joint study on contextualizing and adapting the competency-based approach (CBA) in 7 African countries: South Africa, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Rwanda, and Senegal.This study has ...

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.

The Interagency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET) was convened by UNESCO in 2008 to ensure a good coordination of activities by the key international organizations involved in the delivery of policy advice, programme ...

Today, opportunities abound for greater use of technology in assessment and credentialing to enhance the impact of TVET on economic and social development programmes. In the past, it has often been observed that the impact of TVET on social and econo ...

In 2018–2019, UNESCO launched the first consultation of the 2015 TVET Recommendation, covering the period 2015–2019 (UNESCO, 2018). Member States were invited to report on the steps taken during this period to implement the Recommendation’s ...

UNESCO COVID-19 Education Response. Education Sector issue notes Issue noten°5.1–June 2020
Following the COVID-19 outbreaks, Institutions of Higher Education and TVET had to close and figure out how to continue providing their educational programmes to the students. This brought to light a set of challenges. These challenges are: lack of t ...

Inclusion and education: All means all
The 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report looks at social, economic and cultural mechanisms that discriminate against disadvantaged children, youth and adults, keeping them out of education or marginalized in it. Spurred by their commitment to fulf ...

The Interagency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET) was convened by UNESCO in 2008 to ensure a good coordination of activities by the key international organisations involved in the delivery of policy advice, programme ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is severely affecting technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems and labour markets. This issue note gives an overview of the challenges faced and some practical tips for designing policy interventions.

November 2019
The tenth issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter puts in focus the reporting on UNESCO's TVET Recommendation concerning TVET (2015) as well as the Youth Employment in the Mediterranean project. It also includes an interview with Shyamal Majumdar, pr ...

National and regional cases
The fourth edition of the Global Inventory of Regional and National Qualifications Frameworks gathers knowledge and insights from a range of contexts in which regional and national qualifications frameworks operate. In continuing this observatory fun ...

UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning have been working directly with governmental agencies and institutions to support the development of national and institutional OER policies. This publication is the culmination of this. It is meant to be refer ...

A Comparative and Longitudinal Analysis
This report is based on eight country case studies and seeks to inform policymakers and practitioners in the Arab States, including private sector and civil society about how to design and manage effective work-based learning programmes targeting you ...

The 2019 Gender Report is based on a monitoring framework first introduced in the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report. In addition to focusing on gender parity in education participation, attainment and learning achievement, the framework examine ...

Artificial Intelligence is a booming technological domain capable of altering every aspect of our social interactions. In education, AI has begun producing new teaching and learning solutions that are now undergoing testing in different contexts. Thi ...

Education reforms can only be effective if countries have the capacities to make them operational, with not just trained staff, but with effective organizational processes, functioning institutions and the existence of tools and resources to plan, im ...

Work-Based Learning Study
This report, a UNESCO initiative, under Youth Employment in the Mediterranean (YEM) Project funded by EU, examines Work-Based Learning programmes for young people in Lebanon. The information collected and research conducted follows the methodology an ...

WBL Study
This report, a UNESCO initiative, under Youth Employment in the Mediterranean (YEM) Project funded by EU, examines Work-Based Learning programmes for young people in Palestine. The information collected and research conducted follows the methodology ...

Thematic chapters
The fourth edition of the Global Inventory of Regional and National Qualifications Frameworks gathers knowledge and insights from a range of contexts in which regional and national qualifications frameworks operate. In continuing this observatory fun ...

Une des voies reconnues pour améliorer l’efficacité des systèmes de formation professionnelle est le développement de partenariats entre acteurs publics, acteurs privés et société civile. Mais qu’entend-t-on précisément par partenariats ...