The Philippines increasingly emphasizes lifelong learning and skills mobility for labor productivity as an integral …'s skills development came with the introduction of the national qualifications system known as the Philippine Qualifications … Framework (PQF). To ensure that the PQF remains responsive to the skills demand and needs of the international and domestic …

disconnected from formal skills development systems; (ii) actual skills, rather than education levels, diplomas, or years of … schooling as proxies for skills; and (iii) the broader set of skills, not just job-technical skills associated with one … occupation or another. The findings of the report are expected to be relevant to inform public policies looking to narrow skills …

environment in which skills need frequent updating, and find ways to leverage employers' comparative advance in providing that … achieve workforce skills convergence, and to begin thinking about how they might employ public-private arrangements to … precision training, a demand-driven approach to training that offers workers opportunities to upgrade their skills exactly when …