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the nature of skills supplied by the education sector and the skills demanded by employers. A greater role for youth …
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An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish … economy is to provide the current and future labour force with skills to facilitate both continuing productivity growth and … public and private funding. Participation in adult training is low too and, as elsewhere, seems to be concentrated among …
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early stage and to improve the school to work transition of young people. Key issues are to better match skills acquired in …
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high number of poorly qualified long-term unemployed, skills mismatches and a high school drop-out rate, and insufficient …
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Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School access has been expanded by investment in school infrastructure and recruitment of teachers. In higher education too, the number of providers continues to rise rapidly. A new law...
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-term unemployed, due to the aggravating skills mismatch in the wake of structural change. Avoiding a permanent exit from the labour …-to-job transition, improving the cooperation with employers to improve vocational training programmes, stepping up targeting life …
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In Slovakia, educational outcomes are below the OECD average and are too dependent on the socioeconomic background of students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active labour market policies are very low by international...
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Despite progress over the past decades, Greece?s educational indicators lag behind those of other OECD countries. PISA scores are low, a large number of tertiary students study abroad, and attainment rates are low at all levels of education. Resources devoted to education are also modest....
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education system attracts an increasing number of foreign students. Vocational education and training (VET) is an important part … of the post–secondary education system, equipping individuals with the skills to enter or re–enter the labour force and … low rate of completion of training courses is an additional policy issue facing the sector. Finally, moving towards a less …
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This paper assesses how policies and institutions affect private returns to invest in tertiary human capital, the ability of individuals to finance this investment and the institutional characteristics of tertiary education systems. Focusing on core tertiary education services, the paper...
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