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Title: Tripartite Meeting on Lifelong Learning in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Industries


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Tripartite Meeting on Lifelong Learning in the
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Industries
Geneva, 23 27 September 2002
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Recent developments MEE industries
  • Machine tool production is concentrated in
    Germany, USA, Japan Italy
  • 10 countries produce over 80 of the worlds ICT
    equipment - US Japan followed by a few Asian
    European countries
  • 15 countries have 85 of world exports of office
    and telecommunications equipment (OTE)

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Recent developments MEE industries
  • Developing countries now account for almost half
    of the worlds exports of OTE (47)
  • Most of these developing countries exports of
    OTE originate in EPZs
  • For many countries OTE accounts for between 25
    50 of their exports

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Recent developments MEE industries
  • Mobile phones (now call handsets) will soon
    outnumber fixed phones
  • Economic downturn can have disastrous
    consequences on small economies whether developed
    or developing since they often are dependent on
    the exports of one company or one industry (e.g.,
    Finland, Costa Rica, Ireland Malta)
  • Moores law is accelerating - not only are chips
    doubling their capacity every 18 months - but,
    knowledge is also becoming obsolete just as fast,
    if not faster

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ICT Total World Production
6
Electronic Data Processing Equipment
7
Office Equipment
8
Radio Communications Equipment (incl. cell
phones and radar)
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Telecommunications Equipment (fixed phones)
10
Consumer Electronics
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Components
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Responses to the challenge of lifelong learning
(just learn.IT)
  • Intended job cuts continue to be announced in
    these industries, but the implications remain to
    be seen since employment growth over the past 5
    years has been substantial
  • RD spending is a proxy indicator for new skill
    requirements
  • Many large corporations have in-house
    universities or learning centres (often combined
    with distance learning)
  • learning is best _at_ the workplace

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Responses to the challenge of lifelong learning
(just learn.IT)
  • Developing countries without Internet connections
    and reliable electricity supply cannot fully
    participate in this new trend
  • demand-driven training
  • Universities Colleges are conducting tailor
    made courses on the shop-floor
  • While learning may be lifelong, professional
    certification certainly is not !

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Responses to the challenge of lifelong learning
(just learn.IT)
  • Answers are still required
  • How to develop an educational system to turn out
    the required skills?
  • How to upgrade the skills of those currently
    employed?
  • How to select and re-train workers for a
    completely new occupation?
  • How to re-integrate the unemployed?
  • How to deal with unemployed youth who have never
    worked?
  • How to finance all of the above?

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Potential for developing countries to participate
in the global economy
  • 75 of all foreign direct investment (FDI) going
    to developing countries is concentrated in just
    10 of these
  • Several Asian countries invest heavily in
    science, mathematics and engineering education,
    and have the capacity to undertake RD
  • One in four TV sets for export is now
    manufactured in Mexico

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Recent initiatives
  • Increasingly, unions are including lifelong
    learning in collective agreements, either with
    individual companies (Communication Workers of
    America), or, industry-wide (eg, IG Metall in
    Baden-Wurttenberg)
  • CWAs Alliance for employee growth and
    development programme, places emphasis on
    employment security, rather than, job security
  • The European Union, OECD and UNESCO have place
    life- long learning on their agendas and have
    embarked on ambitious work programmes

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Developments in the big 3 USA, Japan and China
  • The US case study shows how small- and
    medium-size enterprises can overcome the problem
    of not having resources for continuous training
  • The impact of WTO membership on China cannot be
    fully predicted but certainly represents a
    challenge
  • The revamping of the long-term employment system
    in Japan will have repercussions on continuous
    learning programmes

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High performance work Best practice for lifelong
learning?
  • Case studies
  • Motorola
  • Thorn Lighting
  • WH Smith Sons (Tools) Ltd.
  • Lucent Technologies

What is the enabling environment for HPW
practices?
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Thematic Panels
  • The economic performance of the MEE industries
    2001 recession and outlook
  • The social impact of restructuring the MEE
    industries
  • Lifelong learning in the MEE industries Concepts
    and examples the appropriate curricula for the
    various aspects of lifelong learning
  • The roles of the social partners and governments
    in lifelong learning in the MEE industries
    Implications for the ILO

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Summary Slide
  • Recent developments MEE industries
  • Responses to the challenge of lifelong learning
  • Potential for developing countries to participate
    in the global economy
  • Recent initiatives
  • Developments in the big 3 USA, Japan and China
  • High performance work Best practice for lifelong
    learning?
  • Thematic Panels
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