Data on TVET and skills development: Current state and options for future development

Why are TVET data important? 

• Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is an essential component of lifelong learning and skills development.
• TVET can contribute solutions to many of today’s global challenges, including climate change, hunger and poverty, skills shortages, unemployment.
• TVET contributes to the achievement of the SDGs: education (SDG 4), gender equality (SDG 5), decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), climate action (SDG 13).
• UNESCO Strategy for TVET 2022-2029 emphasises role of TVET for equitable, sustainable and peaceful individual, social and economic development.
• For policy design, monitoring and evaluation, we need current, comprehensive and reliable data on TVET and skills development.