UNESCO
UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization striving to help people globally through Vocational Education. UNESCO has a program called, Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET). TVET provides formal and informal learning opportunities for people, training them for the workforce. It is open to both male and female students helping them learn skills and knowledge to be able to work, so they can provide for themselves and their families. “Skills are vital for poverty reduction, economic recovery and sustainable development.”[1]
UNESCO is working with countries showing them the importance of vocational education and the need to bridge the gaps in the labour markets and learning. TVET strives to have a variety of learning opportunities for students, providing various levels and different career options. These programs are also combined with life skills development so that individuals will have a better future. TVET is currently doing work in Africa.
UNESCO holds meetings with nations across the globe and they write reports about TVET. In the report, Skills for sustainable livelihoods- implementing the UNESCO normative instruments concerning technical and vocational education and training in 2005, it states that “Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is increasingly recognized as an effective means of empowering young people to engage in productive and sustainable livelihoods...... In these countries, governments are faced with the challenge of providing further learning opportunities for young people or preparing them for the world of work. Hence, TVET programmes that respond to the demands of the labour market, both local and global, are viewed as central to the effort to equip the young with the work skills that will enable them to escape the trap of poverty and contribute to their community’s economic wellbeing.”[2]
[1] UNESCO. technical Vocational Education and Training TVET. 2012. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/education-building-blocks/technical-vocational-education-and-training-tvet/ (accessed April 17, 2013).
[2] UNESCO. Skills for sustainable livelihoods- implementing the UNESCO normative instruments concerning technical and vocational education and training in 2005. 2005. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001449/144969m.pdf (accessed April 17, 2013).
UNESCO is working with countries showing them the importance of vocational education and the need to bridge the gaps in the labour markets and learning. TVET strives to have a variety of learning opportunities for students, providing various levels and different career options. These programs are also combined with life skills development so that individuals will have a better future. TVET is currently doing work in Africa.
UNESCO holds meetings with nations across the globe and they write reports about TVET. In the report, Skills for sustainable livelihoods- implementing the UNESCO normative instruments concerning technical and vocational education and training in 2005, it states that “Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is increasingly recognized as an effective means of empowering young people to engage in productive and sustainable livelihoods...... In these countries, governments are faced with the challenge of providing further learning opportunities for young people or preparing them for the world of work. Hence, TVET programmes that respond to the demands of the labour market, both local and global, are viewed as central to the effort to equip the young with the work skills that will enable them to escape the trap of poverty and contribute to their community’s economic wellbeing.”[2]
[1] UNESCO. technical Vocational Education and Training TVET. 2012. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/education-building-blocks/technical-vocational-education-and-training-tvet/ (accessed April 17, 2013).
[2] UNESCO. Skills for sustainable livelihoods- implementing the UNESCO normative instruments concerning technical and vocational education and training in 2005. 2005. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001449/144969m.pdf (accessed April 17, 2013).
This video is an Interview of Qian Tang, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education May 14, 2012
UNESCO Links
UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/about-us/how-we-work/mission/
TVET
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/education-building-blocks/technical-vocational-education-and-training-tvet/
Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Africa
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/dakar/education/technical-and-vocational-education-and-training/
Third International Congress on TVET
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/education-building-blocks/technical-vocational-education-and-training-tvet/third-international-congress-on-tvet/
Skills for sustainable livelihoods- implementing the UNESCO normative instruments concerning technical and vocational education and training in 2005
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001449/144969m.pdf
Convention on Technical and Vocational Education 1989
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13059&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13145&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
UNESCO has been producing videos that demonstrate vocational education around the world. They show videos of people creating and producing products that are beneficial to themselves, society and their country. It is very rewarding seeing vocational education making a difference all over the world. In the videos, you will see Morocco,Switzerland and Burkina Faso's vocational systems.
If you wish to view more videos please watch them at: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/education-building-blocks/technical-vocational-education-and-training-tvet/third-international-congress-on-tvet/video-play
If you wish to view more videos please watch them at: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/education-building-blocks/technical-vocational-education-and-training-tvet/third-international-congress-on-tvet/video-play