Education for Development and Competitiveness

In response to demands from developing countries, the training focused on how a country's post-basic education and learning system can be reformed to respond to the needs of the labor market in an increasing global society and how education can play an important role in shaping the knowledge economy.

The course addressed challenges facing secondary, vocational, tertiary education within the lifelong learning framework. It had a strong focus on policy strategies, concrete case studies, and analytical tools by which governments could reform their post-basic education system in such a way that would create a flexible, demand-driven learning system responding to labor market needs with a wider range of partnerships with the private sector and civil society.