The 10th edition of UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report
launched yesterday states the urgent need for action in support of
skills development for young people .
The Report titled "Youth, Skills and the World of Work" was launched
by the UNESCO Commission in partnership with ILO, UNDP and UN. It was
held yesterday at the Youth Affairs and Skills Development Ministry with
Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dullas Alahapperuma as
Chief Guest. The report shows how vital it is to ensure that all young people have
the skills they need to prosper. However, across the world there is a lost generation of 200 million young people who are leaving
school without the skills they need. Many are living in urban poverty or
in remote rural communities and young women in particular are unemployed
or working for low pay. They need to be given a second chance to achieve
their potential.
The report monitors education for all goals across more than 200
countries and territories and it shows that progress is stalling just
when increased urgency should be fueling a final push towards the 2015
deadline.
The report identifies the ten most important steps that should be
taken to develop youth skills. According to the report, it is necessary
to provide second -chance education for those with or no foundation
skills, tackle the barriers that limit access to lower secondary school,
make upper secondary education more accessible to the disadvantaged and
improve its relevance to work, give poor urban youth access to skills
training for better jobs, aim policies and programmes at youth in
deprived rural areas, link skills training with social protection for
the poorest youth, prioritize the training needs of disadvantaged young
women, harness the potential of technology to enhance opportunities for
young people, improve planning by restrengthening data collection and
coordination of skills programmes and mobilize additional funding from
diverse sources dedicated to the training needs of disadvantaged youth.
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