Skill ecosystems: a new approach to vocational education and training policy

Report

One of the main challenges facing UK skills policy is the need to shift the current focus of policy debate away from a narrow preoccupation with skills supply to one that simultaneously addresses issues of skill demand and utilisation. In recent years, Australian policy makers have experimented with a broader and more integrative approach to vocational education and training (VET) policy based upon the concept of 'skill ecosystems'. This issues paper briefly examines the Australian example and asks whether it might offer some useful lessons for the UK.

Authors: Payne, J

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE)
• Series: SKOPE Issues Paper
• Place of publication: http://www.skope.ox.ac.uk/publications
• Publication date: 2007-01-01
• Edition: Publisher's version
• Paper number: 14, August 2007
• Language: English
• Keywords: skills
• Subjects: Education; Vocational and professional learning