NORRAG News 48 on "2012: The Year of Global reports on TVET, Skills & Jobs - Consensus or Diversity?" NOW ONLINE

This issue of NORRAG News looks at the many different meanings of skill in these reports: high, medium, low, foundation, transferable, technical and vocational skills, as well as life-skills. It looks also at the state of skills in both urban and rural areas, and considers skills-for-poverty-reduction as well as skills-for-growth. The reports cover skills in the informal economy, as well as work-based skills and on-the-job training. Some of the reports also consider the emerging meanings and frontiers of TVET.

Here are a few examples of the more than 40 articles to be found in NN48 (the complete issue can be downloaded here):

Editorial: TVET and Skills Development – Some Reflections on Concepts and Discourse

by Kenneth King, University of Edinburgh & NORRAG

The Meaning of Skills in Global Reports

by Peliwe Lolwana, University of Witswatersrand

Beyond “Skills-for-Poverty-Reducation as well as Skills-for-Growth” – New Perspecties in Skills Devlopment in Latin America

by Claudia Jacinto, Institute for Economic and Social Development, Buenos Aires

TVE(T?) and the GMR: Counting and Comparing Apples and Oranges

by Robert Palmer, NORRAG, Amman

An Asian Lens to the GMR

by Chang Gwang-Chol, UNESCO, Bangkok

Transforming TVET and Building Skills for Work & Life: A View from Below

by Salim Akoojee Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services SETA, Johannesburg

Debunking the Disability Myth with Skills: Tapping a Workforce Employers Urgently Need in Bangladesh

by Mikhail Islam, Chittagong Skills Development Centre, Bangladesh

Russian Perspectives of the World Development Report: Jobs, Migrants and Human Capital

by Svetlana Sigova & Maria Pitukhina, Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk,

Skills and Skilling in Asia

by Jouko Sarvi, Asian Development Bank, Manila