Skills Development for Employability in Rural Uzbekistan Coordination Meeting

This project focuses on enhancing skills development in rural areas of Uzbekistan to improve employability through various initiatives such as developing national occupational standards, modernizing pilot colleges, and strengthening the TVET sector. The project aims to address the mismatch between supply and demand, increase access to lifelong learning, and enhance the quality of professional education.

• Skills Development
• Employability
• Rural Areas
• Uzbekistan
• TVET

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1. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan Coordination Meeting 05 September 2023 UNESCO TVET project & National TVET strategy 2030 UNESCO TASHKENT OFFICE

2. Expected Results Result 1: Governance of skills development National TVET/Professional Education Strategy (-2030) with Road map and costing developed National Quality Assurance Framework and quality standards for main TVET actors (SSC, training providers, assessment centers) Capacity development for QA Result 2: Qualifications National Occupational Standards for Agriculture and Irrigation sectors developed (6 occupations) Curricula for 6 occupations being developed Pilot and monitor the curricula at 4 pilot colleges/ technikums Result 3: Modernization of pilot colleges Teachers training conducted Renovation of college premises ongoing Equipment for new curricula being procured Capacity development of school management 2

3. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan DRAFT PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION STRATEGY 2023-2030 JEAN MARC CASTEJON 5 September 2023 3

4. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan OBJECTIVE OF A NATIONAL STRATEGY ON PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT Improvement of Professional Education in terms of increased employability, improving the match between supply and demand and better access to lifelong learning in particular for vulnerable people 4

5. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan DRAFT STRATEGY 7 COMPONENTS 1. Coordination and governance of TVET and skill development sector 2. Quality-assurance of Training Providers 3. Diversification of training programmes 4. New profile for Teachers and Trainers 5. New approach of qualifications 6. Enhance employability using new pathways, career guidance and entrepreneurship competences. 7. Making TVET system more attractive for parity of esteem with general education. 5

6. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan Govern- ance Branding Providers Single Quality Assurance Framework Employa- bility Progra- mmes Qualifica- tion Trainers 6

7. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan 1. EFFECTIVE COORDINATION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS, THROUGH IMPROVED GOVERNANCE OF THE TVET/PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION SECTOR A coordination body including all key stakeholders A qualification authority as Regulator of qualifications. A quality assurance framework with EQAVET (list of indicators on the establishment of the European Quality Assurance Reference Framework) . Solid skills intelligence system to bring light to national trends in TVET and make informed decisions on current and future skills and labour market. Overarching body of Sector Skills Councils. 7

8. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan 2. BUILD QUALITY-ASSURANCE IN TRAINING PROVIDERS Define the function and standard awarding body as defining training needs and curricula Define set a standards for accreditation in the delivery of qualifications. Strengthen the relation between TVET providers and the business community at local level. Modernized leadership leading to increased autonomy. Quality Improvement Programmes (QIP) leading to a culture of quality assurance CVET as normal service of TP as knowledge centers. 8

9. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan Indicator EQAVET no 1 Relevance of quality assurance systems for VET providers: (a) share of VET providers applying internal quality assurance systems defined by law/at own initiative; (b) share of accredited VET providers. 9

10. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan 3. DIVERSIFICATION OF TRAINING PROGRAMMES Increase Work-Based Learning (DUAL system and apprenticeship) (EQAVET indicator) Curricula towards a broaden learners understanding of a greener way of working and living Competence-based curricula. Permeability formal/informal learning Modularisation/Credential/Credit system for learning pathway New balance between technical and transversal skills in qualifications. 10

11. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan 4. NEW PROFILE FOR TEACHERS AND TRAINERS Apply new digital technologies in teaching and training Develop teaching skills for inclusion and psychosocial support skills Teach key competences and social responsibility and civil engagement Increased needs for hybrid models teachers and trainers who work in vocational education and training institutions and companies. Gain autonomy in selecting appropriate vocational pedagogies methods, techniques, contents and forms of work Increased budget of further training of trainers Indicator EQAVET no 2 Investment in training of teachers and trainers: (a) (b) share of teachers and trainers participating in further training amount of funds invested 11

12. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan 5. SHAPING QUALIFICATIONS MEETING CHANGES IN TVET CONTENT Enablingthe accumulation, transfer, validation and recognition of prior learning, including in non-formal and informal settings. Skill orientation of qualifications. Develop comprehensive qualification frameworks to improve permeability between upper secondary and higher education. Broadening of occupational profiles, while the overall number of qualifications (and thus specializations) is reduced, indicating that future VET skills in Uzbekistan will look different. 12

13. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan 6. FOSTER EMPLOYABILITY THROUGH IMPROVED LEARNING PATHWAYS Entrepreneurship competence is embedded in VET and ways to promote its value. Career information and guidance = High-quality career guidance systems that orient individuals towards sustainable jobs Orientation and guidance at Training Provider level as part of a Personal Development Plan Creating a NEET toolkits 13

14. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan 7. RAISE ATTRACTIVENESS OF TVET TO REACH PARITY OF ESTEEM Incentives to increase participation of the private sector. Campaigning for Parity of esteem-based studies. Collect data from students and graduates on itinerary. Clich -free information on TVET. International networking. Branding the qualifications from knowledge centers. 14

15. Skills Development for Employability in Rural Areas of Uzbekistan THANK YOU 15