Skills
The OECD helps countries to improve skills governance and the design of both VET programmes and adult learning systems that are responsive to changing skill needs. It supports policymakers through better evidence on the skills of adults and employer needs as well as through advice on good policy practices.
COVID-19 pandemic highlights urgent need to scale up investment in lifelong learning for all
The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a programme of assessment and analysis of adult skills. Learn more...
The relationship between skills and the labour market is the object of in-depth research and policy analysis. Learn more...
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.
Skills Summit 2022: Strengthening Skills for Equity and Sustainability (24-25 March)
Covid-19 crisis: Latest analysis
- The impact of COVID-19 on job and skills demand
- Adult Learning and COVID-19: How much learning are workers missing?
- Teaching and learning in VET
- Strengthening online learning when schools are closed
- Skill measures to mobilise the workforce
- VET in a time of crisis: Building foundations for resilient systems
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 for jobs dataviz
Skills by country
Find out how your country fares on key information processing skills.
Take the test
The Education and Skills online test is based on the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). It can be used by adults and youth of any age to demonstrate their workforce-readiness skills and benchmark themselves with adults of similar background in their country or internationally.
What's new?
- Strengthening Apprenticeship in Scotland, United Kingdom
- Skills Imbalances in the South African Labour Market: OECD Skills for Jobs database
- The Landscape of Providers of Vocational Education and Training
- Swimming skills around the world
- Work-based learning and the green transition
- Preparing Vocational Teachers and Trainers
- Do children have what it takes to promote the green transition today and in the future?
- How Vocational Education and Training (VET) Systems Can Support Ukraine
