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Research Digest - May 2023
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Publications
Skills in Latin America: Insights from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)
OECD
The report uses data from the first cycle of the Survey of Adult Skills, part of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), conducted in 39 countries and economies, including four in Latin America: Chile (2014-15) and Ecuador, Mexico and Peru (2017). It has also drawn on data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which surveyed 15-16-year-old students from 79 countries and economies including 10 in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay. These data have been supplemented by results from the World Bank Skills Towards Employability and Productivity (STEP) survey of adults living in urban areas of Bolivia and Colombia, using a comparable literacy assessment to PIAAC, although the results are not from a representative sample of the whole adult population.
Chihiro Kobayashi & Paul Warner
This report research attempts to explore the underlying detail behind headline achievement rates across a range of sectors and levels, based on our assertion that only by understanding this finer level of detail can we begin to address what interventions might be required to improve the achievement rates and perceived standards of apprenticeships. We investigated the factors affecting the withdrawal of apprentices from providers’ perspectives through interviews. The interview analysis identified a variety of sectoral and cross-sectoral issues around apprenticeships, as shown below.
Teaching for the Future: Global engagement, sustainability and digital skills
OECD
This report outlines the challenges and key trends for teaching and schools, and sets out ambitious proposals to improve education standards to ensure learning caters to the needs of all students regardless of background. The report was used as the basis to launch discussions about the state of global education at the International Summit on the Teaching Profession held in Washington D.C., April 2023. Topics discussed included the future of learning and ways to radically reimagine how education systems function in the decades to come; analysis of how to attract and support the development of high-quality teachers and teaching practices in the age of digitalisation; and ways to support the teaching of global competencies in schools, and how to promote equitable and inclusive learning environments for all.
An analysis of the demand for skills in the labour market in 2035
Andy Dickerson, Gennaro Rossi, Jude Hillary & David Simcock
The report presents findings from the Skills Imperative 2035 research programme. The report produces projections of the skills that will be needed in these future jobs. We then combine the IER/CE estimates of the jobs that will be available together with the projections of the skills that will be used in those jobs to generate estimates of ‘skills demand’ in 2035. In particular, we identify which skills are likely to be used most intensively in employment in 2035. We call these ‘Essential Employment Skills’.
Supporting girls’ transitions from school to higher education and work
Donvan Amenya, Richard Churches & Anna Riggall
The report explores the difficulty transitioning from school to higher education or work remains one of the key barriers facing girls in disadvantaged contexts, with far-reaching implications for their futures and wellbeing. In this report, the first in a three-year research project on girls’ transitions into higher education or work, we seek to understand the challenges facing these girls and highlight promising interventions to support their transitions – including in challenging contexts where marginalisation persists.
Girls’ Education and Women’s Equality: How to Get More out of the World’s Most Promising Investment
Shelby Carvalho & David K. Evans
The report investigates how education can better address these entrenched gender inequalities in society. How can governments deliver schooling for girls that is high quality and safe and contributes to a better later life for women? Investing in girls’ schooling is a crowd-pleaser in global development circles. Claims abound about its transformative effects, not without some justification.
Comments
Diego F. Angel-Urdinola, Catalina Castillo-Castro & Angela Hoyos
Researching ethnicity and the early years workforce: The need for reflexivity
Magdalena Dujczynski, Mona Sakr & Celina Santos Pinto
50 years after landmark study, returns to education remain strong
Harry A. Patrinos
Preparing girls for the future of Africa: Approaches to empowerment through digital skills
Maria Barron, Alex Twinomugisha, Huma Kidwaiekua & Nuama Bentil
Events
OECD Disrupted Futures conference
May 31st |16:00-18:00| OECD presentation (guidance and inequalities) and welcome | Register here
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