OECD Skills Strategy 2019

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“…Therefore, the pedagogical activities in higher institutions like vocational education include learning occupational skills in workplaces through work simulation, internship, and job training that replicate written and oral communication tasks that they will encounter in the office. Such simulations will bring benefits to the students, such as open access to occupation for individuals as they graduate, develop new skills and productivity, and increase efficiency in skills development (OECD, 2019). Encouraging the students to master the necessary skills for the industry will help to reduce the gap between the expectations of the stakeholders or the needs of the industry and the qualifications of the graduates.…”

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The Effectiveness of Blended Learning in Improving Students’ Workplace Communication Skills: A Case Study on Olive Website Test Result

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The research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using blended-learning instruction in improving students’ communication skills at Sekolah Vokasi Universitas Gadjah Mada. They were required to take the Test of English for Vocational Students (TEVOCS) and it indicated that there was a gap between listening and speaking ability as presented in the test scores. To support the improvement of both skills, blended-learning instruction was designed and carried out in the forms of online listening activities via Online Listening for Individual Practice (OLIVE) website and offline meeting for speaking activities. The research used experimental research, which referred to the results of pre-test and post-test scores of the group. The participants of the research were 275 students from three departments of Sekolah Vokasi Universitas Gadjah Mada; Language, Arts, and Cultural Management department; Engineering department; as well as Economic and Business department academic year 2019/2020. The pre-test and post-test scores show improvement in students’ performance in both skills. The result of the t-test also shows that there is significant improvement after the application of blended-learning instruction.

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“…have been recognized and highly valued as critical "human" skills in the 21st century. This may suggest that on the one hand, there is an emerging need to combine skills across domains in reshaping more "integrated" sustainability competencies while acknowledging and keeping core featured skills of different educational backgrounds in higher education in order to prepare "future-ready adults" [71,72] with right skills to meet real "sustainable" in facing the growing skills instability with the wave of new technologies in the fourth industrial revolution, for example, an artistic student should also be competent in technology related skills for successfully finding a corresponding job such as an illustrator or visual designer. On the other hand, it also highlights the complex feedback loops between higher education, sustainability competencies, and market, therefore, despite the evolution needed in higher education, companies and employers are also expected to broaden the workforce by offering more hiring and training opportunities for re-skilling and up-skilling, based on an understanding of sustained value for the business and employees through seeing "workforce as an asset" [73], and in this way, support more efficient and sustainable transformation of skills into socio-economic growth, as well as talents' lifelong well-being by investment in human capital.…”

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Understanding the Effectiveness of Higher Education System: Evidences from Market Outcomes of Early University Graduates in Seven European Countries

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2020

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Being enlightened by Richard Florida’s seminal work on the creative class, this paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of higher education institutions to cultivate a workforce with utilised skills that meet the demand of labour market in the context of sustainable socio-economic development. Based on the macro and micro data generated from Eurostat and the Europe Labour Force Survey (EU LFS), the supply and demand condition of early graduates and the mismatch rate between early graduates’ education backgrounds and actual jobs they undertook are estimated by a multinomial logit model in seven European countries. The findings suggest that, (1) higher education has a significant impact on the formation of specific sustainability competencies that contribute to the development of creative economy; (2) many creative workers also have a high probability of finding jobs that are not commensurate with their qualifications; (3) the effect of higher education policies appears to be heterogeneous across different countries. Therefore, we argue that policy makers should increase awareness about connecting internal measures of education system (e.g., course design) directly to aims and scopes of sustainable socio-economic development scenarios, and joint efforts shall be made to reduce such mismatch rates for particular subjects that are identified by regular monitoring procedures or programmes on the basis of full consideration of interests and reasonable requirements across different countries in Europe.

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“…The most disadvantaged are least likely to train, with low-skilled adults three times less likely to undertake training than the high-skilled (20% vs 58%). Other groups falling behind include older people, low-wage and temporary workers, and the unemployed (OECD, 2019 [52]). Evidence from the UK Employer Skills Survey shows that across the UK, highly skilled workers are more likely to take part in training than middle-skill and lower skilled workers.…”

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Better using skills in the workplace in the Leeds City Region, United Kingdom

2020

OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Working Papers

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This paper reviews the different definitions and measures of skills use and shows why it matters for local development policies. Based on findings from the Annual Population Survey and the UK Employer Skills Survey, it provides unique local analysis on how the Leeds City Region compares on skills use relative to other Local Enterprise Partnerships. It then outlines opportunities for new actions that could be implemented in the Leeds City Region to work closer with firms to promote skills use in the workplace.

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OECD Skills Strategy 2019

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The Effectiveness of Blended Learning in Improving Students’ Workplace Communication Skills: A Case Study on Olive Website Test Result

The Effectiveness of Blended Learning in Improving Students’ Workplace Communication Skills: A Case Study on Olive Website Test Result

Understanding the Effectiveness of Higher Education System: Evidences from Market Outcomes of Early University Graduates in Seven European Countries

Better using skills in the workplace in the Leeds City Region, United Kingdom

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