YEM Project Knowledge Resources

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.

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 ...

October 2018
The ninth issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter puts in focus the Better Education for Africa’s Rise (BEAR) initiative as well as a Learning Forum on Managing skills in times of disruption.

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.

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 ...

December 2016
The sixth issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter contains information on how UNESCO is putting into practice its Strategy for TVET (2016-2021).

July 2016
The fifth issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter contains information on UNESCO´s new Strategy for TVET (2016-2021) and how it will guide the Organization´s work with regards to TVET for the coming years. Other articles focus on UNESCO´s Recom ...

November 2015
The fourth issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter contains information on the 2030 Agenda including 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and how TVET is prominently reflected in them. Other articles inform on World Youth Skills Day, ICT in T ...

May 2015
The third issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter contains information and reflections on developments with regard to the international community's education and skills for 2030 and was distributed at the World Education Forum in Incheon, Republic of ...

March 2014
The second issue of the Shanghai Update newsletter gives an overview of the activities undertaken by UNESCO and UNEVOC to respond to the recommendations that were made to UNESCO by its Member States in Shanghai. This issue contains information about ...

Shanghai Update Issue No. 1, June 2013
In 2012, over 700 experts in technical and vocational education and training, including 40 ministers and deputy ministers, attended the UNESCO Third International Congress on TVET in Shanghai, China. They came to Shanghai in order to discuss the tran ...