ILO Policies and Programmes on Skills and VET teachers and trainers

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ILO Policies and Programmes on Skills and VET
teachers and trainers

• Bill Ratteree
• ILO
• EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN REGION
• Vocational Education and Training Round Table
• 21-22 October 2009, Budapest

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ILO Objective Decent Work for All

• Productive work in conditions of freedom, equity,
  security and human dignity
• Four interlocking pillars
• Rights at work
• Productive employment
• Social protection
• Social Dialogue Information sharing,
  consultation, negotiation

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Global Employment Agenda

• Decent Work Country Programmes promote employment
  in several areas, including
• Skills, technology employability
• Labour market institutions policies
• Social protection

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Skills component of Decent Work

• Key international standard
• Recommendation No. 195 on Human Resources
  Development Education, training and lifelong
  learningAdopted by the International Labour
  Conference in June 2004 - provides guidance to
  constituents basis for sharing good practices
  promote cooperation

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R-195 Key ILO policy objectives

• Education, training and lifelong learning are
  fundamental... but insufficient to help
  individuals gain decent jobs.
• Training and skills development must form an
  integral part of broad economic, social and
  labour market policies - sustain economic and job
  growth and social development.
• Training and skills development policies should
  promote equal opportunities for women and men and
  help eradicate poverty.

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R-195 - shared responsibilities

• Governments - primary responsibility for
• education
• pre-employment training, core skills
• training unemployed people w/ special needs
• Social partners - significant role in
• further training
• workplace learning and training
• Individuals - expected to make use of education,
  training lifelong learning opportunities

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Conclusions from International Labour Conference
2008

• Skills development to help increase productivity
  and employment
• Innovate
• Adopt new technologies
• Attract investment
• Compete in new markets
• Diversify the economy
• Boost job growth at the same time improving
  productivity

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Skills development process Prepare for future
jobs

• Integrate skills into national and sector
  development strategies
• Include skills in responses to global drivers of
  change
• technology
• trade
• climate change
• Develop more social inclusiveness
• Rural communities
• Informal economies in poor countries move to
  formal
• Disadvantaged youth education, apprenticeships
• Persons with disabilities
• Women in all groups

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Skills and the current crisis ILC 2009 GLOBAL
JOBS PACT

• Investing in skills development now
• Prepare displaced workers for new jobs available
  in the recovery
• Build back better - use downtime to invest in
  new skills or upgrade skill levels for enterprise
  productivity in the recovery
• Avoid skills gaps in implementing public
  investments in infrastructure, green technologies
  and social services included in stimulus packages

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Teachers Trainers - Roles, Rights
Responsibilities

• No specific ILO work on teachers and trainers
  considered integrated in
• International standards - 1966 Recommendation
  for secondary 1997 Recommendation for
  post-secondary
• Monitoring promotional work Joint ILO/UNESCO
  Committee of Experts (CEART) 10th Session in
  Paris in early Oct.

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The CEARTs 10th Session

• Teaching status is not improving shortages
  continue to challenge EFA goals
• VET teachers face many of same problems policy
  responses need to deal with
• Teacher shortages Combination of employment
  conditions makes teaching less attractive
  recruitment retention problems
• Continued, long-term decline teachers salaries
  compared to similar professions

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The CEARTs 10th Session - 2

• More difficult teaching learning environment
  pupil indiscipline violence undermines teacher
  morale learning outcomes
• Teachers voices in education decision-making
  social dialogue - improved in some countries but
  remains weak in many countries and regions need
  for more political acceptance of unions and
  institutional capacity to dialogue

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Recommendations defend rights promote
responsibilities

• The 1966 Recommendation
• educational objectives policies - consultation
• teacher education - initial and further
• employment and career
• rights and responsibilities - negotiations
• effective teaching and learning conditions
• teachers salaries
• social security
• Applies equally to VET teachers in schools
  training sites

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Recommendations defend rights promote
responsibilities

• The 1997 Recommendation focuses on
• institutional autonomy and responsibilities
• academic freedom and professors obligations
• security of employment and tenure
• careers and conditions of work for teaching
  research staff
• conditions for part-time, female other staff
• collegial decision-making collective
  negotiations
• Applies equally to all TAFE teachers at
  post-secondary level

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Monitoring promoting

• Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts (CEART)
  meets every three years to review trends
  recommend policy changes to Govts, other
  education authorities
• EI direct input to CEART meetings major report
  prepared for each session

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Recommendations - Making effective use of soft
standards

• Allegations on non-application of Recommendations
  made by international national teachers
  organizations CEART findings recommendations
  to Govts
• Japan teachers assessment merit pay
  including TVET
• Australia Denmark academic freedom, public
  service contracts, funding , governance social
  dialogue
• Recommendations could be used by teachers unions
  as checklist of good practices to measure
  national law practice vs. international norms
  need to be known used as advocacy tool

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ILO 2009 Programme on VET teachers trainers

• Research policy dialogue forum with Govts
  private employers in ILO focusing on employment
  and the working environment larger lifelong
  learning framework VET
• Advisory body mtg. for education research to
  decide on terms of reference on 4 Nov. EI
  member affiliates represent workers