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Young Workers Are Searching for Meaning and Wellbeing. Let’s Help Them Find It

by Wendy Kopp | May 2, 2023 | Skills | 0

Companies around the world are fretting about how to stem the Great Resignation and, in particular, to engage the 19-25-year-olds who comprise “Gen Z.” Read More

VET Africa 4.0: Integrating Community Research Praxis

by David Monk, Luke Metelerkamp, Simon McGrath and Palesa Molebatsi | Aug 26, 2021 | 2021 UKFIET Conference, Skills | 0

This article was written by David Monk, Centre for Community Based Research and Lifelong Learning, Faculty of Education and Humanities, Gulu University; Palesa Molebatsi, Centre...

Creating Livelihoods for Girls through Skills Development Interventions – Potential for Innovation

by Zain ul Abidin, Saba Saeed and Mehak Najam | Aug 9, 2021 | Girls' Education, Skills | 0

This article was written by Zain ul Abidin, Saba Saeed and Mehak Najam from Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may be global but it is felt most...

Research methods: Building back better in international education and development research – what to expect from the 2021 UKFIET conference

by Elizabeth Walton and Bronwen Magrath | Jul 15, 2021 | 2021 Conference Themes, Skills | 0

This article summarises an interview with co-convenors of one of six 2021 UKFIET conference themes: Research methods: Building back better in international education and...

Adapting for sustainability: taking training of trainers online to continue higher education support

by Tabitha Buchner and Josie Dryden | Jul 13, 2020 | Skills, Teachers | 0

At the mid-point in what should have been a face-to-face workshop to strengthen future facilitators and mentors of course redesign in East African universities, Tabitha Buchner...

TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) in the times of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities

by Margo Hoftijzer, Victoria Levin and Indhira Santos | May 19, 2020 | COVID-19, Skills | 0

This blog was written by World Bank specialists: Margo Hoftijzer, Senior Economist in Education Global Practice; Victoria Levin, Economist in Education Global Practice and a...

Skills for Human Development

by Lesley Joy Powell and Simon McGrath | Apr 15, 2019 | Learning, Skills | 0

This blog was written by Simon McGrath and Lesley Joy Powell, authors of the new book, ‘Skills for Human Development: Transforming Vocational Education and Training’, published...

Education, Skills and International Cooperation: Comparative and Historical Perspectives

by Kenneth King | Dec 11, 2018 | Skills | 0

By Kenneth King, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and one of the founding members of UKFIET. When I was Distinguished Visiting Professor in the University of...

21st Century Skills: Upskilling for an Uncertain Future?

by Caine Rolleston | Jun 1, 2018 | Learning, Skills | 0

This blog was written by Dr Caine Rolleston, Senior Lecturer in education and international development at the University College London Institute of Education (UCL-IOE), and...

A Post-2015 Skills Sub-Goal: Confusion still Reigns

by Simon McGrath | May 28, 2014 | Post 2015, Skills | 0

The most recent UKFIET-DfID discussion on Post-2015 goals for education, co-convened and hosted by ODI, well captured the richness of the challenges inherent in the larger...

Conference Sub-theme – The Futures of Development Assistance

by Kenneth King | Aug 14, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Aid, Post 2015, Skills | 0

The Futures of Development Assistance is one of the Sub-themes at the UKFIET Conference in Oxford, organised by Kenneth King, Simon McGrath and Robert Palmer. Its 8 sessions run...

AusAID Symposium: Skills Development for Productive Lives in the Pacific

by Kaye Schofield | Jul 29, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Skills | 0

Joining the dots: building the skills Fourteen small island countries of the South Pacific are striving to deliver education and other basic services to their citizens while...

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