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BULLETIN 145
Training, work and knowledge

January-April 1999

 

(Full text available only in Spanish)

 

THIS ISSUE

 "Training and Labour in the Society of Knowledge" was the title of a technical encounter and series of lectures by distinguished panellists on the occasion of the 34th Meeting of the Centre’s Technical Committee. The record of such presentations and deliberations is the subject matter of this special number of the Cinterfor/ILO Boletín.

The opening address was by the President of the Republic of Uruguay, Dr. Julio María Sanguinetti, who considered that it was fundamental that a society of knowledge should aim at a kind of schooling enabling persons to understand changes and update them constantly, rather than an encyclopaedic education. Education is the favoured scene of future development, but it must have a long-term projection. The realm of labour still constitutes the core of the progress of workers, who have to go through a process of ongoing renewal of their skills.

"Employability and globalisation: the fundamental role of training", was the title of the presentation by Rashid Amad, ILO official who headed the team that drafted the "Report on World Employment 1998-99".

Prior to the meeting, Claudio de Moura Castro, expert of the Inter-American Development Bank, had circulated his paper on IDB policies about contributions by the Bank to the development of vocational training in the region.

Enrique Matilla, President of the Chamber of Exporters of the Argentine Republic, member of the International Strategy Institute and of the Chamber of Foreign Trade of the Mercosur, in a presentation he had already submitted in the Programme of State Policies of the University of Buenos Aires, provided an overview of the wide-ranging theme of globalisation and employment, with an approach to his subject matter permitting a selection of criteria for decision-making.

Martin Buxedas, for his part, tackles the always pressing matter of rural vocational training from the point of view of changes in the world of labour. He presents persuasive data and figures on the scope of efforts to be made in that sector by economies of the region He ends his comments with an assessment of the challenges faced by vocational training institutions.

The appointment of the Chilean Juan Somavía as ILO Director General is an event with warm repercussions in the world of work and vocational training of our region. He is the first Latin American and the first citizen of a developing country elected for that important job. His swearing in statement before the ILO Governing Body bears witness to the guidelines of his office.

 

 

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