QCTO

How does the QCTO concept relate to international trends?”

The revised skills development strategy, which includes the QCTO as a component of an overall system is very much in line with international trends and best practices. The Committee on Skills at the International Labour Conference, 2008 concluded that Governments have overall responsibility for creating, in consultation with the social partners, the enabling framework to meet current and future skills needs. International experience shows that countries that have succeeded in linking skills to productivity, employment, development and decent work, have targeted skills development policy towards three main objectives:
(a) matching supply to current demand for skills
(b) helping workers and enterprises adjust to change and
(c) building and sustaining competencies for future labour market needs.

It noted furthermore, that such a framework needed to address transitions between stages of learning. “In many countries higher secondary and tertiary education rates have not resulted in higher employment in work of higher productivity for a substantial portion of young people, because they may lack competencies relevant to labour market needs.”

Measures to addresses these and other transitions should be part of the national skills development agenda.

Occupations are listed on the OFO and include Trades and Professions