Centre for Skills
The OECD Centre for Skills supports countries to achieve better economic and social outcomes by taking a whole-of-government approach and engaging with stakeholders to develop & implement better skills policies.
2023 Joint Cedefop/OECD symposium on Apprenticeships and the Digital Transition - Save the date
OECD Skills Outlook 2021: Learning for Life
OECD Skills Strategies: Promoting better skills, better jobs and better lives. Click here to learn more...
Vocational Education and Training: exploring how skills can be effectively developed for successful careers.
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OECD Skills Strategies
We are working collaboratively with a range of countries in applying the OECD Skills Strategy framework to build more effective national skills strategies. Each country project offers a highly tailored approach to focus on the unique skills challenges, context and objectives within that country.
Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning
OECD work on vocational education and training (VET) and adult learning draws on country studies, in-depth analysis of specific topics and available data to explore how professional skills can be effectively developed for successful careers.
OECD Skills Outlook
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Insights on how countries can best support lifelong learning for all and promote individuals’ ability to learn how to learn. |
Skills Summits
Since 2016, the OECD has organised biennial Skills Summits together with host countries, for ministers & senior officials with responsibilities for diverse skills-relevant portfolios. Learn more...
Covid-19 crisis: Latest analysis
- An Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 on Job and Skills Demand Using Online Job Vacancy Data
- Adult Learning and COVID-19: How much informal and non-formal learning are workers missing?
- Teaching and learning in VET: Providing effective practical training in school-based settings
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What's new?
- Strengthening Apprenticeship in Scotland, United Kingdom
- The Landscape of Providers of Vocational Education and Training
- Skills Imbalances in the South African Labour Market: OECD Skills for Jobs database
- Swimming skills around the world: Evidence on inequalities in life skills across and within countries
- Understanding how economic conditions and natural disasters shape environmental attitudes: A cross-country comparison to inform policy making
- Work -based learning and the green transltion
- Preparing Vocational Teachers and Trainers
- OECD/European Commission's Joint Research Centre working papers mapping young people's environmental sustainability competence in EU and OECD countries
- 2023 Joint Cedefop/OECD symposium on Apprenticeships and the Digital Transition - Save the date & call for papers
- See more work on skills
About the Centre for Skills
The OECD Centre for Skills provides policy advice and analytical insights about the impact of megatrends, such as digitalisation, globalisation, ageing and migration, on labour market needs and how this impacts the demand for skills. In particular, it works with countries to improve the governance and the effective design of lifelong learning systems that are responsive to changing labour market needs. Given that skills policies need to be well aligned with policies from other sectors (such as, employment, taxation and migration) in order to have the desired impact, the Centre adopts a whole-of-government approach and works horizontally with many other directorates within the OECD.
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