Workforce Development : Matching Education Systems to Workforce Needs

Equipping national workforces with job-relevant skills is a continuing challenge, and mismatches are a present concern. Many school graduates cannot find jobs commensurate with their education and training. Employers complain of difficulty in filli...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Brief
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/218421468180243917/Matching-education-systems-to-workforce-needs
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spelling okr-10986-267032021-04-23T14:04:37Z Workforce Development : Matching Education Systems to Workforce Needs World Bank BEST PRACTICE COGNITIVE SKILLS CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK DATA COLLECTION DISCUSSIONS EDUCATION LAW EDUCATION POLICIES EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATION SYSTEMS LEARNING SCHOOL SYSTEM SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TEACHER TEACHER TRAINING UNIVERSITY EDUCATION VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WORKFORCE YOUTH Equipping national workforces with job-relevant skills is a continuing challenge, and mismatches are a present concern. Many school graduates cannot find jobs commensurate with their education and training. Employers complain of difficulty in filling vacancies and bemoan the scarcity of soft skills for boosting productivity. More broadly, skills constraints make it difficult for companies to innovate and invest in more lucrative economic areas. A goal of SABER-Workforce Development is to help countries improve their workforce development framework. 2017-05-22T20:24:55Z 2017-05-22T20:24:55Z 2014-01 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/218421468180243917/Matching-education-systems-to-workforce-needs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26703 English en_US SABER in Action; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Bulgaria Iraq Malaysia Uganda
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topic BEST PRACTICE
COGNITIVE SKILLS
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
DATA COLLECTION
DISCUSSIONS
EDUCATION LAW
EDUCATION POLICIES
EDUCATION SYSTEM
EDUCATION SYSTEMS
LEARNING
SCHOOL SYSTEM
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
TEACHER
TEACHER TRAINING
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
WORKFORCE
YOUTH
spellingShingle BEST PRACTICE
COGNITIVE SKILLS
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
DATA COLLECTION
DISCUSSIONS
EDUCATION LAW
EDUCATION POLICIES
EDUCATION SYSTEM
EDUCATION SYSTEMS
LEARNING
SCHOOL SYSTEM
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
TEACHER
TEACHER TRAINING
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
WORKFORCE
YOUTH
World Bank
Workforce Development : Matching Education Systems to Workforce Needs
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description Equipping national workforces with job-relevant skills is a continuing challenge, and mismatches are a present concern. Many school graduates cannot find jobs commensurate with their education and training. Employers complain of difficulty in filling vacancies and bemoan the scarcity of soft skills for boosting productivity. More broadly, skills constraints make it difficult for companies to innovate and invest in more lucrative economic areas. A goal of SABER-Workforce Development is to help countries improve their workforce development framework.
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title Workforce Development : Matching Education Systems to Workforce Needs
title_short Workforce Development : Matching Education Systems to Workforce Needs
title_full Workforce Development : Matching Education Systems to Workforce Needs
title_fullStr Workforce Development : Matching Education Systems to Workforce Needs
title_full_unstemmed Workforce Development : Matching Education Systems to Workforce Needs
title_sort workforce development : matching education systems to workforce needs
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/218421468180243917/Matching-education-systems-to-workforce-needs
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