All news: Education and training

Labour market

Asia-Pacific on the road to middle-class employment

A recent ILO study shows that despite robust economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region, millions of people are still living under or just above the poverty line.

Child labour

Convergence – A way to end child labour in India

The ILO teams up with the local authorities to help remove and prevent children from entering child labour in urban and rural areas in five states.

Viet Nam’s leading labour journalists trained in Labour Code

More than 30 labour and employment journalists from major media organizations in Viet Nam gathered in the central city of Da Nang on 18 July for a training workshop in the new Labour Code.

Skills and competitiveness

Ryder calls for strengthening skills development to bridge the gap between the worlds of education and work

ILO and WTO stress their shared goal to realize the potential of trade opening for employment and for productive and decent work for more people.

World Day Against Child Labour 2013: Child domestic workers to present “The Broken Pearl behind the Mop”

The ILO estimates that there are 2.6 million domestic workers in Indonesia, of which 26 per cent are children under the age of 18 years old. The great majority of domestic workers are female, around 90 per cent, with low educational levels mainly...

Partnership for skills training

ILO-Japan sign ¥30,831,000 skills’ training initiative

A collaboration between the Government of Japan and the International Labour Organization will strengthen a range of courses offered by the International Training Centre in Turin, Italy.

Myanmar

A new path out of adversity

The ILO’s infrastructure project on the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar, not only re-established access to villages devastated by cyclone Nargis in 2008 but also gave rise to a bustling community life.

World Day Against Child Labour 2013: One hour campaign against child labour in 262 junior high schools in Sukabumi

The International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with Sukabumi Education Office (Dinas Pendidikan Sukabumi), are conducting an hour campaign on child labour in 262 junior high schools across Sukabumi District on Wednesday, 12 June 2013,...

More than 70 children in Bishkek and Osh will be enrolled to evening classes

Evening classes will be opened on the basis of secondary schools in Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek and Osh, where more than 70 working children will be able to get education.

Apprenticeship Systems – what do we know?

Adapted from “Overcoming the work-inexperience gap through quality apprenticeships – the ILO’s contribution” by Michael Axmann and Christine Hofmann, ILO Skills and Employability Department

Public-private partnership

Eliminating seasonal child labour in Turkey

The ILO teams up with European private industry to help prevent children from working in seasonal hazelnut harvesting in Turkey.

Meeting today's and tomorrow's skills needs

The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), in cooperation with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and the International Labor Organization (ILO), organized a national conference entitled “Meeting Today’s and...

Good teachers vital to ensure right to education

Good teachers play a big role in getting every child into school and meeting the deadline for the Education for All goals in 1,000 days.

Remarks by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs (ILO) at the launch of the European business campaign "skills for jobs"

The speech of ILO Assistant Director-General for policy, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs on how to reaching better impact for the "skills for jobs" campaign.

Child labour tops agenda of Kyrgyz parliamentary committee’s session

Following the education forum held in December 2012 with some parliamentarians participating, the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Kyrgyzstan in close cooperation with the the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child...

Combating child labour through education

Knowledge sharing workshop reviews progress of ILO-IPEC project

The participants came from Bolivia, Indonesia, Mali and Uganda – the four project countries.

Jobs for youth: what works

Ministers at the 9th ILO’s European Regional Meeting in Oslo, discuss possible solutions to the youth employment crisis

Cultural Mela: Creative art work of Brick Kiln workers

Brick kiln workers presented their life experiences through creative art in a Cultural Mela held in Lahore.

Technical cooperation

A strategic alliance for youth employment

The ILO presents a technical cooperation portfolio that calls for the mobilization of resources and partnerships to tackle the youth employment crisis.

Somalia

Drop the gun and take a pen

Countries have stepped up their efforts to fight piracy and warlordism in Somalia. The ILO has partnered with other UN agencies to address the root causes of the conflicts: chronic unemployment and a lack of prospects for youth.