ILC 2021: General Discussion on Skills and lifelong learning

Video series: Shaping skills and lifelong learning for the future of work

This series of videos highlight the key points addressed in the report "Shaping skills and lifelong learning for the future of work" to be discussed at the 109th International Labour Conference.

Web page | 24 November 2021
At its 340th Session, the ILO’s Governing Body called on the ILO to take the lead role on skills and lifelong learning, with a strong emphasis on social dialogue and tripartism, human-centred recovery, promoting opportunities for decent work and increasing productivity as a vehicle for inclusive recovery and resilience.

In order to effectively implement the decision of the Governing Body, a general discussion on skills and lifelong learning will be held at the 109th Session of the International Labour Conference. The general discussion is expected to develop a strategic vision on skills and lifelong learning for a human-centred post-crisis recovery and beyond, seeking to lay the foundation for impactful action and delivery by the ILO for years to come.

This series of videos highlights the key points addressed in the report Shaping skills and lifelong learning for the future of work on which the general discussion will be based. The report seeks to contribute to the discussion of how skills development systems can respond to the crisis and the challenges of today and tomorrow while creating decent employment for all, including through sustained economic growth and productivity.

This series is divided into six videos:

Skills and lifelong learning: Global context, trends and challenges

This video explains how megratrends, including technological change, globalization, demographic changes and more recently, the Covid-19 pandemic, are making skills development and lifelong learning more important than ever for success in today’s world of work.

 

The benefits of skills and lifelong learning

This video shows how lifelong learning is key to a human-centred recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, as it places people at the centre of economic and social policies and business practices. What is more, lifelong learning has the potential to create the virtuous circle between productivity and employment, which contributes to achieving inclusive structural transformation, facilitating transition to formality and reducing inequalities.
 
 

Future-ready skills and lifelong learning systems

This video provides a number of working solutions and innovative approaches that can make skills and lifelong learning systems “future-proof”, including assessing and anticipating skills needs to reduce skills mismatch, reshaping skills delivery, digitalizing skills systems, supporting capacity development and decent working conditions of teachers and trainers, addressing new skills changes through work-based learning, and ensuring skills are used in workplaces.
 
 

Governance and financing of skills development and lifelong learning

This video highlights that the promotion of skills and lifelong learning for all must be based on social dialogue, with a clear understanding of the roles and responsibility of relevant stakeholders - including governments, employers and workers-and adequate and sustainable financing.
 


Access and transitions: Unlocking opportunities for all

This video offers insights on how to make TVET systems and lifelong learning work for everyone, including vulnerable groups such as workers in rural communities, indigenous and tribal peoples, people in fragile settings, informal economy workers, young people, older workers, women, migrant workers, and people with disabilities, among others.
 
 

ILO’s leading role on skills and lifelong learning

This video emphasizes ILO’s leading and coordinating role in the development of effective national skills and lifelong learning systems and introduces the new ILO Skills and Lifelong Learning Strategy 2030.