The Importance of Quality Oversight in Vocational Learning and Skills Development
Vocational education has emerged as a crucial cornerstone in individual life chances, economic prosperity, and social progress. It provides access to secure, qualified employment and complements academic education in contributing to economic performance.
In times of multiple challenges, such as demographic change, digitization, and economic transformation, vocational education becomes even more significant. It produces qualified specialists that become a decisive competitive factor.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), led by Prof. Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education, recognizes this importance. To measure and compare the effectiveness of vocational education systems across the globe, the OECD is set to launch the Vocational Education PISA. This assessment will evaluate completion rates, transition rates, skills, and further qualified competencies, creating transparency and comparability in the global labor market.
The Vocational Education PISA aims to benefit both individuals and national economies by providing opportunities, driving innovation, and serving as the foundation of modern societies. It will also help in the recognition of vocational competences and promote quality monitoring in vocational education.
The International Bund (IB), founded in 1949, plays a significant role in this endeavour. Thiemo Fojkar, the CEO of the IB, oversees the organisation that supports approximately 14,000 employees in around 700 facilities for vocational, personal, and social development. Annually, around 350,000 young people and adults use the support offers of the IB.
The IB's mission extends beyond vocational education. It has programs that focus on the integration of people with disabilities or migration background, ensuring that everyone has an opportunity to benefit from quality vocational education.
Efficient education management is a driver, treasure trove, and guarantee of high standards in vocational education. This benefits both the individual and the national economy. Vocational education enables participation in social life and, through rigorous quality measurement, comparable performance indicators, and learning-enhancing feedback processes, fulfills its role as an opportunity provider, driver of innovation, and foundation of modern societies.
In almost all OECD countries, people with completed vocational training or further education are more likely to be stably and productively employed. Education, including vocational education, increases productivity, enables innovation, and strengthens economic growth.
In conclusion, vocational education holds immense value in today's rapidly changing world. The OECD's Vocational Education PISA and the work of organisations like the IB are essential steps towards ensuring that vocational education systems are strong, practice-oriented, and future-proof, meeting the demands of technological change, highly qualified specialists, and societal change.
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