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UAE Advisory Forum 17th September 2013


Introduction

Our Perspective of Youth Employment


Our response, aims and approach


Innovating

Capacity building

Profile raising

Catalysing change

Aligning skills development and employment opportunities

Employability and

enterprise

Employer engagement

Improving skills development

At a system level

At a teacher /

learner level

At an institution

level

Through Skills Interventions:

Stakeholder

engagement

Policy Dialogues

International

Skills Partnerships

Global and

National Challenges

Training &

Resources

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Innovating

Capacity building

Profile raising

Catalysing change

Aligning skills development and employment

opportunities

Employability and

enterprise

Employer engagement

Improving skills development

At a system level

At a teacher /

learner level

At an institution

level

Egypt: Apprenticeship / Training programme pilot

Bahrain :National Occupational Standards Dialogues

Egypt, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Tunisia, Yemen, Morocco : Education and Employer partnerships

UAE : Be Entrepreneurial Partnership with InJaz

Oman: : Careers Guidance development

UK Seminar series: Employer Engagement and Apprenticeship

Egypt & Tunisia: Changing perception of Skills Seminar

Tunisia: Building Effective Employer Engagement

UK Seminar series: Employer engagement and Apprenticeships

Egypt: PETRA and ProSkills

Egypt: SHELL: ‘Take Off’ training programmeTunisia: AfDB: Souk Attanmia

Social Media & TV

Global Enterprise Challenge

Kuwait, Tunisia & Egypt : Training & support for business

• Policy dialogues

• Skills

Partnerships

• Challenges

• Training /

resources


Impact


Quality of Vocational Education Services: Institution to system change

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Montenegro and Bulgaria: New Quality Assurance model embedded in vocational education, quality standards raised to boost employability

Yemen: Robust Quality Assurance system introduced into vocational colleges

Romania: national occupational standards and relevant units of competency within the national qualifications developed and accredited in agri- and rural tourism to prepare young people for jobs.

Pakistan: skills standards developed and validated across 11 sectors. ‘I feel strongly that this kind of technical education contributes a lot to economic growth of Pakistan and would assist in increasing per capita income, which would make a major portion of population a useful one.’ Muhammad Sarwar Zahid, TVET Authority Pakistan.

Yemen: development of Inspection framework , National Quality Skills Standards and Employer Engagement strategies.

Relevance of education to the labour market


UAE : Sharjah Institute of Technology and NIVE partnerships : innovation in education through ‘Work taster programmes’ , embedding entrepreneurial skills , Quality Assurance and international benchmarking.

Capacity Building for teachers and students

Industry-led curricula, learning outcomes based

Cutting edge qualifications with international appeal

New teaching and learning resources Modern teacher methodologies

Algeria: The Catering Challenge was the first culinary competition organised in Algeria for apprentices of vocational training institutions specialised in catering. The media reach including TV and radio was over 10M and curriculum change in catering and hospitality.

Egypt: Enterprise workshops and competition

for over 700 young people. Media coverage on

6 TV channels and the radio reaching over

0.5M and resulted in curriculum changes in

Tourism .

Employability skills


South Asia: 40 teams of young people trained and turned their innovative ideas into commercial ventures only in 2008 providing employment within local communities.

BiH: A new training module for enterprise skills devised and embedded in the curricula of Economska Skola Bejelinja

Be Entrepreneurial : Partnership with InJaz reached more the 780 students within 9 schools across 4 cites. Working with business 72 volunteers developing social entrepreneurship knowledge and skills. TVET governing body of Punjab has developed and introduced the first ever course in social entrepreneurship into all of their 165 colleges.

Region: Across 5 countries last year we engaged 40 colleges, 5000 young people and 400 teachers in enterprise training and challenges. The Ministry of Education embed enterprise into annual activity for all colleges in Yemen and Libya from 2013.

Changing perceptions


Employability research


Our invention in youth employment


Apprenticeship case story


Way Forward


Enhancing Youth EmploymentEnhancing Skills for

Employment and Enterprise

Embed enterprise education across

curricula

Provide a broad set of

skills/knowledge

Recognise other skills &

experience

Support & encourage young

entrepreneurs

Enhancing Quality of Vocational

Education Services

Build confidence in system

Better qualifications recognised by

employers

Improve quality of delivery

Clearer progression routes

Improving the Status of Skills Development

Build understanding of job opportunities

Build sustainable forums and social

networking to engage young

people

Invest in communications

campaigns

Increasing the Relevance of Education to

Labour Market

Develop industry-led curricula and learning materials

Integrate work experience

opportunities in the curricula

Better understanding of industry needs

Increasing Effective Employer Engagement: Build commitment to education and industry collaboration; Gather accurate LMI and use it strategically; Enhance the existing careers guidance services and information; Support transition of young people into employment & self-employment Developing Institutional Leadership: Establish structures to encourage institutions to be semi-autonomous; Empowering leaders

Perceptions & Role of Young People:Commitment to employing young people; Young people as future drivers of growth


MELANIE RELTON

REGIONAL PROJECT MANAGERFURTHER EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICABRITISH [email protected]

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