Info Resources Document Actions Send this Print this ADB, Timor-Leste Sign $12 Million Grant For Skills Training Scoop (ADB) - January 31, 2012. "Government officials and the Director General of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Pacific Department recently signed a $12 million grant agreement to assist Timor-Leste in introducing and implementing mid-level skills training in the construction and automotive trades." Read More… National Workshop on Anticipating Skills Demand and Strengthening the Labour Market Information systems The ILO finds that robust training policies and systems are ground in the characteristics and institutions of each country. Nevertheless, a number of common building blocks can be identified. A good skills development system will be able to: anticipate skills needs; engage employers and workers in training, including the specific sectors; maintenance of quality and relevance of training; making training accessible to all sections of society; ensure viable and equitable financing mechanisms; and continuously evaluate the economic and social outcomes of training. Labour market information consists of information on the size and composition of labour market and includes information pertaining to the two sides of the labour market, demand and supply, and how they interact with each other. LMI uses may range from assessing employment problems, fixing employment targets and identifying employment intensive technologies and investments, to assessing the relevance of existing courses and identification of new courses for educational development including identification of implementation needs, identification of eligible beneficiaries, etc. LMI is very important in anticipating skills damnd in the labour market. A number of methods are used to forecast future skills needs. These include forecasting occupational and skills profiles at various levels of disaggregation; social dialogue; labour market information system (LMIS); and analysis of the performance of training institutions, including tracer studies. Read More… Asian firms tap Western business schools New York Times (NDTV) - January 10, 2012. "To sustain the high rate of growth in the emerging markets, there is a sense they need to develop world-class capabilities,” said Harbir Singh, professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Read More… ILO/Regional Skills Programme/Japan Regional Workshop and Study Programme on Anticipating Skills Demands for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth The ILO and its Regional Skills Programme (RSP), in collaboration with the Government of Japan and the Japan Vocational Ability Development Associate (JAVADA), is organizing this Workshop which will be held in Sendai, Japan during 27 February to 1 March 2012. This Workshop is designed to provide opportunities for participating countries to improve knowledge on the analysis of future skills needs, on research methods and conducive institutional frameworks; develop proposals for how to build a system for early identification of skills needs to meet future skills needs; discuss how to ensure effective communication and collaboration between government, employers and workers, training experts, education and training providers, labour market information systems and employment services to make use of skills data, including for effective vocational guidance of jobseekers. This will enable the participating member countries to improve national skills data and Labour Market Information (LMI) which can guide policy makers in deciding on how to invest their limited resources. Read More… NGOs Improve Teachers’ Skills Online ADB - December 27, 2011. "Three students are asked what they want to be when they grow up. The first one answered, “I want to be a doctor to help the sick.” “I want to be a scientist to discover new things,” said the second child. Then the third child answered, “I want to be a teacher to help kids become what they want to be.”" Read More… How High-Performing Nations Teach Global Skills Asia Society - December 2011. "Education specialists have been looking to practices in other countries for quite some time. Many of the questions remain unchanged: What explains the Finland phenomenon? What is it about Singaporean math? And how did Shanghai close the staggering achievement gap?" Read More… ILO launches first global business and disability website ILO - December 2, 2011. The ILO has taken a major step toward promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace with the launch of a pioneering new global knowledge sharing platform linking scores of multinational enterprises and organizations representing employers and networks of people with disabilities. Read More… The MasterCard Foundation pledges US$14.6 million to create “Work4Youth”: Partnership with the ILO Youth Employment Programme New partnership will increase the global awareness of the challenges facing youth as they move from education to the world of work. Read More… Skills and Employability Network Updates #5 contributed by Jenny Bjork — Dec 13, 2011 01:05 PM Author: ILO Skills and Employability Team Publishing Date: 2011 Category: CoP Product This is the fifth (November) edition of the Skills and Employability Updates, a bi-monthly newsletter created by the Skills and Employability Team. We welcome comments and contributions from our members, so if you have something to share - an event, a publication, news - please let us know and we will include it in the next edition of the Updates. Read More… National Workshop on Rural Employment Strategies for Poverty Reduction This event is hosted by Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI, Lao PDR) with technical support from the ILO. This event aims to stimulate discussion on strategies for employment creation in rural areas in order to reduce poverty in Lao PDR. Read More… Presentation for the Global Study on Skills for Green Jobs by Ms Olga Strietska-Ilina Ms Olga Strietska-Ilina, Skills Development Specialist from HQ-EMP/SKILLS, has been invited to present at the workshop on "Social Dimensions of Climate Change" in Seoul, organized by GGGI-ADB on 4 October 2011. During her mission in Asia, Olga will come to Bangkok and will have the opportunity to present the findings of the Global study on skills for green jobs (21 countries in collaboration with CEDEFOP; for Asia, these countries include Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Philippines and Thailand.) and of the research sponsored by the EC on green skills anticipation methodologies and case studies on the renewable energy and the green construction industries. Read More… ILO National Workshop on Skills Data and Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS) The regional activity of the Japan funded 2010 Programme (ILO/Regional Skills Programme/Japan Skills Development in Asia and the Pacific 2010) entitled “Addressing Skills Mismatch through PPP” has clearly indicated that a strong partnership between government, employers and workers is an essential feature of an effective and enduring bond between the world of learning and the world of work. The findings of the 2010 regional activity also included an expression of a strong interest, by the participating countries, for further technical inputs on Labour Market Information Systems (LMIS). It has been agreed that the lack of LMI (and skills data) is one of the reasons behind the skills mismatch (existence of both large number of vacancies and high unemployment) and a major constraint for policy making. In this connection, this national workshop will help provide an opportunity for stakeholders in the India skills ecosystem to meet the objectives listed in the section below. Kindly refer to the attachments for your information. Read More… CME reiterates call for skilled migrants as it hits back at Gillard claims Mining Weekly.com - November 15, 2011. "Australia was facing a skills shortage and not a labour shortage, Western Australian Chamber of Minerals and Energy (CME) CEO Reg Howard-Smith said on Monday as he reiterated a call for a flexible skilled migration programme. The CME chief responded to comments by Prime Minister Julia Gillard over the weekend that the Australian resources sector was not doing enough to employ local communities." Read More… Background Note Discussion on Skills for Green Jobs This is the Background Note for the discussion on Skills for Green Jobs. Read More… Background Note Discussion on Skills for Green Jobs contributed by Jenny Bjork — Nov 14, 2011 01:29 PM Author: ILO Skills and Employability Team Publishing Date: 2011 Category: CoP Product This is the Background Note for the Online Discussion Forum that will be held on the Skills and Employability Network portal between November 15 and 30, 2011. Read More… Next 15 items » [1] 2 3 4 ... 59 Basic search Portlet Share Resource Have knowledge resources to share? Click here to share them with others. 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