Biennial Report 2016-2017
This Biennial Report gives a comprehensive overview of UNESCO-UNEVOC's activities in technical and vocational education and training over the biennium 2016-2017.

March 2018
The eighth issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter puts in focus a recent TVET conference and the resulting updated skills agenda, as well as issues related to greening and quality assurance.

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) plays a pivotal role in economies of South Asian countries and needs rational and effective mechanisms to deal with the challenges and provide education and readiness for the world of work in for ...

Facts and analyses accompanying the Federal Report on Vocational Education and Training – selected findings
The yearly data reports are issued by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) and supplements the Report on Vocational Education and Training published by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) by providing a ...

The UNEVOC Bulletin is the newsletter of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre. Each issue focuses on a particular theme or activity. Issue 31 focuses on Greening TVET

The UNEVOC Bulletin is the newsletter of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre. Each issue focuses on a particular theme or activity. Issue 32 focuses on Open Educational Resources and the integration of ICT's in TVET

Capacity building for transformational TVET leaders: Vision, knowledge and skills
The following report gives an overview of UNESCO-UNEVOC's TVET Leadership Programme for Southern and Eastern Africa, held in Harare, Zimbabwe, 23-27 October 2017. The programme was implemented together with the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern ...

Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the Directorate of Vocational Education and Training (DVET) officially assigned the National Institute for Vocational Education and Training (NIVET) with the task of annual TVET reporting.
The Vietnam Vocational Education and Training Report 2016 is the fifth report that provides information for policy makers, managers, researchers, technical vocational education and training (TVET) institute officers, enterprise managers, students, an ...

UNESCO-UNEVOC Promising Practices
Australia has a well-established apprenticeships system, but a steady decline in the enrolment rate has raised concerns. One of the main causes of this decline is the negative public perception of apprenticeships. The Australian Apprenticeships Ambas ...

UNESCO-UNEVOC Promising Practices
As Viet Nam’s economy has modernized, demand has increased for skilled labour, with the result that unskilled youth have few prospects for finding formal employment. REACH is a local non-governmental organization that trains young people, particula ...

UNESCO-UNEVOC Promising Practices
Mozambique has long struggled to cope with youth unemployment. Recognizing that a cause of the high youth unemployment was a lack of skills among youth, in 2007, the umbrella organization Young Africa (YA) launched a technical and vocational training ...

UNESCO-UNEVOC Promising Practices
In 2014, Laboratoria, a Lima-based web development company became aware of the lack of female software developers in Peru and decided to set up a six-month training course for women, called Code Academy. The course is offered exclusively to young wom ...

UNESCO-UNEVOC Promising Practices
In Latin America secondary school drop-out rates are high, partly because many youth feel that the type of education they receive at school does not offer any guarantee of future employment. Under the Self-Sufficient Schools model, Recognizing the n ...

Recognizing the need for better quality TVET courses that are more relevant and more effective in enabling youth to find employment, SSACI, a non-profit, public-private partnership, established a workplace-based experience (WBE) programme in 50 publi ...

UNESCO-UNEVOC Promising Practices
In India, women from rural communities often have little say in family and community decision-making. Skill development is a recognized medium of empowerment. However, access to technical vocational education and training (TVET) remains a challenge t ...

On July 24th 2017, BIBB published film presents the diverse range of VET cooperation activities of the German Federal Government. In addition to, the training of skilled workers in Germany's dual vocational training system is an important basis for t ...

In 2017, BWP magazine published articles that address two topics that are of permanent concern in international cooperation (Future of Work-Based Learning and Financing VET) and two further issues that have become highly pertinent over recent years ( ...

In 2017, BIBB published a brochure that informs about the most important regulations, procedures and stakeholders which secure and pursue the further development of training quality at the company as a learning venue. Addressed are education and trai ...

2017, BIBB published a brochure that provides information on a unique procedure for the development of training regulations. The arrangements form the basis for initial training in the dual system, in which many young people in Germany begin their vo ...

Capacity building for transformational TVET leaders: Vision, knowledge and skills
The following report gives an overview of UNESCO-UNEVOC's TVET Leadership Programme 2017, held in Bonn, Germany, from 11 to 22 September.

The overarching aim of this project is to identify the digital skills requirements for the broader Australian workforce and examine the capacity of the vocational education and training (VET) system and industry training packages to effectively meet ...

A literature review in which we explore an opportunity for systemic change in South Africa’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges from a perspective that seems largely under researched in SA as well as internationally. We ...

July 2017
The seventh issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter looks at the progress made since the Third International Congress in May 2012. It presents contributions from seven leading authorities on TVET to reflect on how far UNESCO have come with each of th ...

23 to 27 October 2017
The topic of ‘pathways’ that make it easier for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) graduates to enter different forms of post secondary and higher education, has recently been receiving much attention by policy makers in many ...

Technology has the potential to dramatically improve or positively disrupt the way students learn. In order to establish whether the integration of technology and the resulting "blended learning" approach is, in fact, resulting in instructional model ...