World Youth Skills Day 2020
World Youth Skills Day 2020 will take place in a challenging context. The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures have led to the worldwide closure of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions, threatening the continuity of skills development.
It is estimated that nearly 70% of the world’s learners are affected by school closures across education levels currently.
Currently, more than 1 in 6 young people are out of work due to COVID-19. As young people are called upon to contribute to the recovery effort, they will need to be equipped with the skills to successfully manage evolving challenges and the resilience to adapt to future disruptions.
Respondents to a survey of TVET institutions, jointly collected by UNESCO, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Bank, reported that distance training has become the most common way of imparting skills, with considerable difficulties regarding, among others, curricula adaptation, trainee and trainer preparedness, connectivity, or assessment and certification processes.
Theme 2020:
“Skills for a Resilient Youth”
The World Youth Skills Day 2020 under the theme “Skills for a Resilient Youth” is co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Portugal and Sri Lanka to the United Nations, together with UNESCO, ILO and the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth.
The focus will be on resilience. In the short term, this implies making young people resilient to rapid changes in prospects for employment and entrepreneurship in the sectors that are hardest hit by the crisis, namely wholesale and retail trade, autorepair, manufacturing, real estate, administrative activities, accommodation and food services.
In the longer term, this implies helping skills development systems adapt to changes in the world economy that the pandemic and recession will bring.
Owing to the COVID-19 situation, the celebrations of the World Youth Skills Day 2020 will have a virtual format. A panel discussion will bring together multiple stakeholders in skills development including young people, member States, TVET institutions, the private sector, workers’ organizations, policy makers and development partners. An online discussion with the audience will follow.
The Virtual Conference on Skills for a Resilient Youth aims to:
- assess the short-, medium-, and long-term impacts of the pandemic in different country contexts;
- share good practices from TVET institutions about how they have responded to the pandemic. For example, how institutions have provided distance learning in no-tech, low-tech and high-tech scenarios, and how teachers and trainers have been supported;
- gain insights from private sector, employee, and employer stakeholders about the impact of the pandemic on their sectors, and the changes in job profiles and skills needs that they foresee;
- learn from young people about their hopes and fears as well as the opportunities that they see moving forward;
- reflect on how TVET systems can respond to the short- and medium-term impact of the pandemic, while also keeping in mind longer-lasting challenges.
Prior to the current crisis, young people aged 15-24 were three times more likely than adults to be unemployed and often faced a prolonged school-to-work transition period.
Skills Agenda's objective is to equip young people with the skills to successfully manage evolving challenges in green and digital transformations and the resilience to adapt to future disruptions.
Submission: TVET Youth Stories 2020
Schools and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions around the world have closed in massive numbers due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As young people have continued to showcase their adaptability and resilience despite the current challenges, UNESCO-UNEVOC encouraged them to submit videos of how they were continuing to learn during lockdown.
These stories are part of a campaign to mark World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) and highlight the importance of skills development for a resilient youth.
Tell your story
Click here to watch the full playlist of #TVETYouthStories
In post-COVID-19 societies, as young people are called upon to contribute to the recovery effort, they will need to be equipped with the skills to successfully manage evolving challenges and the resilience to adapt to future disruptions.
Let’s encourage the youth to acquire valuable and resilient skills because the success of the nation always depends on the success of its youth.
G-Souto
15.07.2020
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