Innovations for Labour Market: International Experience in Building National Competency (Skilling) Systems
Keywords:
Labour market, high and vocational education system, national qualification system, labour market demand forecast, search for equilibrium of supply and demand in the market.Abstract
The article is dedicated to the crucial issue of identifying synchronization points between the labour market and the vocational education system in international practice. The aim of the research was to identify the optimal conditions capable of ensuring synchronization of labour market demands with the responses of the vocational education system at the national level. To achieve this goal, a number of tasks was solved: the development trends of the global labour market at its current stage were analyzed; an analysis was conducted on the leading international experience in creating and operating national competency systems — ecosystems in which participants collectively ensure the synchronization of knowledge, skills, and abilities of the workforce with the demands of the labor market. Special attention was paid to the analysis of leading international practices in forming system operators, as well as the structures and tasks that national competency systems perform in the national labour and vocational education markets. The authors used general theoretical methods such as analysis, synthesis, abstraction, as well as empirical methods (benchmark analysis): studying the experience of leading international practices in ensuring the synchronization of national labour market demands with vocational education systems. In conclusion, the authors suggest the need to supplement the tools used today by the Russian operator for synchronizing labour market and vocational education system agendas — the National Qualifications Development Agency with a high-precision and constantly updated labour market demand forecast, both at the federal level and in regional and sectoral sections. In the future, the authors see the necessity to develop a methodology for constructing this forecast, taking into account the already identified limitations of the proposed methodology within the framework of the national project “Personnel”.
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