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UNESCO launches Global Skills Academy to boost employability of one million youth

by Sahitya Karra
July 20, 2020
in Academia, News

UNESCO launches Global Skills Academy. This aims to equip one million young persons with employability and resilience skills and help them find jobs during the looming recession when youth employment prospects look bleak.

The Organization unveiled the project, Skills for a Resilient Youth in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond, on World Youth Skills Day, celebrated on 15 July.

Members of UNESCO’s Global Education Coalition, launched in March to support countries in developing inclusive learning solutions, are teaming up to provide youth with opportunities to gain digital skills and other competencies through free access to online skills development programs. Partners’ offers will be pooled within the Global Skills Academy, providing one-stop access to training opportunities.

Founding partners include Coursera, Dior, Festo, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Orange Digital Centres, and PIX. International Organizations and partners including ILO, OECD, and WorldSkills Competition will also contribute to the project.

UNESCO launches Global Skills AcademyThe Academy will operate through a matching process facilitated by UNEVOC, UNESCO’s global network for institutions specialised in Technical and Vocational Education and Training.

Detailed information about available training will be shared with the 250 UNEVOC Centres in more than 160 Member States. The Centres will identify interested participants and connect them to the Coalition members’ training platforms. Outreach to disadvantaged learners will be a priority.

“The crisis has highlighted the urgency of equipping youth with the right skills to accelerate the transition to more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient economies,” said Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO. “This requires massive investment in education and skills training and expanded partnerships with employers to narrow the gap between demand for skills and the workplace.” 

The impact of the pandemic on both education and employment has been dramatic. Students enrolled in training institutions and apprentices have been particularly affected by closures as they are more dependent on practical training and hardware that is only available in training centers and workplaces.

According to the recent UN Secretary General’s Policy Brief on the “The World of Work and COVID-19”, the young account for more than 40% of people employed in hard-hit sectors worldwide. Even before the crisis hit, 267 million young people were not in employment, education, or training.

Skills in such fields as data analytics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are in demand in labour markets around the world, yet many education and training systems lack the capacities needed to prepare youth for employment in these areas.

Related Article: TVET in the time of COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities – Read More: https://www.nationalskillsnetwork.in/tvet-in-the-time-of-covid-19-challenges-and-opportunities/

Founding partners’ contributions include

  • Coursera: Workforce Recovery Initiative, online learning to reskill unemployed workers to re-enter the workforce
  • Dior: Women@Dior(link sends e-mail) program, a leadership educational program around the four core values of autonomy, inclusion, creativity, and sustainable development
  •  Huawei: Tech4All program, a digital skills training and MOOCS covering fields such as Artificial intelligence; big data and the Internet of Things
  • Festo: e-learning modules in water technology and wastewater management
  • IBM: free access to platforms providing training on emerging technologies and upskilling and reskilling for youth and adults
  • Microsoft: Free online courses and real-world tools to build skills in technologies that help students and job seekers succeed in a post-COVID world
  • Orange: Orange Digital Centres for digital skills development and Orange Campus Services allowing access to free online courses, both in Africa and the Middle East
  • PIX: a platform to evaluate, develop and certify digital skills

The Global Skills Academy provides one-stop access to training that can help young people develop skills for employment. The selected training also seeks to impart skills that can accelerate a needed transition to more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient economies.

Source of the Press Release: https://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-launches-global-skills-academy-boost-employability-one-million-youth-recession-looms

Tags: COVID-19digital skillsemployability skillsGlobal Skills AcademyNew SkillingreskillingTVETUNESCO UNEVOCUNESCO Vocational EducationupskillingWorld Youth Skills Day 2020
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