The Education Commission and UNICEF published a report, featuring analyzed data on skills development in early childhood, and among children of primary school age and youth.
According to the data, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia held medium to low levels of mastering the secondary-level, digital, job-specific, and entrepreneurial skills.
UNICEF Director of education Robert Jenkins blames the educational system for this lack of skills in low-income countries. “The majority of children and young people across the world have been failed by their education systems, leaving them uneducated, uninspired, and unskilled, the perfect storm for unproductivity,” said the director.
The concerning low attainment of secondary-level skills in the 92 countries with available data is facing a skills crisis, which is severely under-preparing the majority of youth to partake in today’s workforce.
Robert Jenkins calls for investing in cost-effective proven solutions to fast-track learning and skills development urgently to address this crisis.
Both UNICEF and the Education Commission published this report to urge governments to reach children with a low quality of education to break down the barriers that put them at risk of dropping out of school, assess their learning levels, and provide catch-up classes.
Foundational skills are to be prioritized to build a strong base for lifelong learning and psychosocial health and well-being.
UNICEF calls for more extensive data on the skills gap among children and young people across all age groups from the countries that are not listed among the 92 studied.
The Education Commission and UNICEF announced launching a new version of the World Skills Clock. This platform will monitor learning and skills trajectories globally and at the country, level using a real-time data model. It is supposed to provide additional insights, including transferable skills, disaggregated data by sex and location, country-report cards, costing, and financing.
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