UNESCO Publications
Below you can find a selection of UNESCO publications that are relevant in the context of TVET. For the full catalogue, please use the UNESCO Digital library
Expanding TVET at the Secondary Education Level
The focus of the seventh booklet of the Asia-Pacific Education System Review Series is on making TVET accessible to more young people in the Asia and the Pacific. Sustainable economic development in the region depends heavily on addressing skills mis ...
Policy Review of TVET in Cambodia
UNESCO’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system policy review for Cambodia responds to an invitation from the Government of Cambodia to UNESCO to conduct a review of the country’s TVET system and to engage in a policy dialo ...
UNESCO-UNEVOC Regional Forum Latin America and the Caribbean Advancing TVET for Youth Employability and Sustainable Development
27–28 August 2013, San José, Costa Rica
To strengthen global and regional harmonization for the advancement of TVET transformation through the capacities of UNEVOC's unique global Network of specialized TVET institutions and affiliated partners, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organ ...
UNESCO-UNEVOC Regional Forum Asia and Pacific: Advancing TVET for Youth Employability and Sustainable Development
4–6 September 2013, Seoul, Republic of Korea
To strengthen global and regional harmonization for the advancement of TVET transformation through the capacities of UNEVOC's unique global Network of specialized TVET institutions and affiliated partners, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organ ...
UNESCO-UNEVOC virtual conference: Greening TVET for sustainable development
Report of the UNESCO-UNEVOC online conference 22 October to 2 November 2012
From 22 October to 2 November 2012, a moderator-driven discussion was held on the topic of greening TVET for sustainable development. Moderated by Mr Kai Gleissner from the Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, a UNEVOC Centre, the virtua ...
Meeting Report: International Forum on the role of the UNEVOC Network in transforming TVET for a sustainable future
From 14 to 16 November 2012, the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organized a three-day International Forum on the role of the UNEVOC Network in transforming TVET for a sustainable future in Bonn, Germany. The Forum was also organized to commem ...
Shanghai Update: Follow-up on the Third International TVET Congress
Shanghai Update Issue No. 1, June 2013
In 2012, over 700 experts in technical and vocational education and training, including 40 ministers and deputy ministers, attended the UNESCO Third International Congress on TVET in Shanghai, China. They came to Shanghai in order to discuss the tran ...
Revisiting global trends in TVET: Reflections on theory and practice
The essays presented in this e-publication are complementary to the UNESCO forthcoming volume on global TVET trends and issues in UNESCO’s new Education on the Move series. Just like the latter, they cover a wide, although certainly not exhaustive, ...

Prospects Issue 165: Education, Fragility and Conflict
Quarterly review of comparative education, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2013
Articles:
* Clementina Acedo, The politics of education, fragility and conflict
* Lene Buchert, Introduction—Understanding education, fragility and conflict
* Mieke T. A. Lopes Cardozo, Turbulence in Bolivia’s normales: Teacher education as a ...
TVET Policy Review: Lao PDR
Policy reviews aim to improve TVET policies and the TVET system in the reviewed country and to further local capacity to undertake strategic TVET policy analysis and planning that is aligned with sustainable development priorities. The following ...
Upper secondary education and vocational education
Challenges of integration
This publication is an initiative of the UNESCO Brasilia Office intending to contribute to the implementation and monitoring of a new proposal of building secondary education integrated to technical and vocational education, occasioned by reformulati ...

UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning - Annual Report 2012
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is pleased to announce the publication of its Second Global Report on Adult Learning and Education - Rethinking Literacy. The first GRALE was published in December 2009 to coincide with the Sixth Inter ...
Das Internationale Zentrum für Berufsbildung der UNESCO
Dieser Flyer beschäftigt sich mit dem UNESCO-UNEVOC Internationalen Zentrum und dessen Aufgaben, Ziele und Wertvorstellungen. In diesem Dokument sind deshalb auch UNEVOCs Aktivitäten auf einem Blick zu finden , sodass Schwerpunkte der Organisation ...
Entrepreneurship Education in the Arab States: Regional Synthesis Report on Component II
A joint project between UNESCO and StratREAL Foundation, UK
The regional synthesis report on Component II of the initiative highlights the results and outcomes of the project in the four participating countries, namely Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Oman. The regional experiences reflect a growing importance to ...
UNESCO-UNEVOC in brief
The UNESCO-UNEVOC in brief brochure provides a quick overview of the work of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre.
Education for Sustainable Development. Sourcebook
For Teachers
The purpose of the publication is to describe ways in which education for sustainable development (ESD) can be integrated into primary and secondary schooling. This collection of briefs is designed to complement other ESD materials published by UNESC ...
Final Report: Third International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training
on “Transforming TVET: Building skills for work and life” Shanghai, People’s Republic of China 14 to 16 May 2012
General report on the conference

Proposed Indicators for Assessing Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Inter-Agency Working Group on TVET Indicators
The report is organized into three main parts. The first part presents the conceptual framework used to develop the five broad policy areas and describes their scope.
The second part focuses on the main indicators for each policy area. A range of in ...
Fashion or passion? Policy matters in skills development
In an interview published by UNESCO Bangkok, UNESCO Programme Specialist Mr Youngsup Choi challenges common perceptions on TVET.

Transforming technical and vocational education and training: building skills for work and life; main working document
Main working Document for the International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Shanghai 2012
The UNESCO study looks in depth at the major trends and policy developments in TVET since the Second International Congress held in Seoul in 1999. This work has two main objectives. The first is to analyse world trends in TVET in the context of wider ...
Consultation Meeting of UNEVOC Cluster Coordinators
Meeting Report, Bonn, Germany, 12 to 14 September 2012
The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre organized a consultation meeting of Cluster Coordinating UNEVOC Centres in Bonn, Germany, from 12 to 14 September 2012. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the role of Cluster Coordinating UNEVOC Centres in or ...
SPECIAL REPORT on the Activities Implemented Within the Joint IFESCCO/UNESCO IITE Project “Promotion of the Use of ICTs in TVET in CIS Сountries”
This special report is prepared by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) within the framework of the joint project with the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation of CI ...
Promotion of the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Technical and Vocational Education and Training in CIS countries
IITE has published an analytical report “Promotion of the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in CIS countries”, prepared in the framework of the joint project of the Intergo ...
Shanghai Consensus: Recommendations of the Third International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Transforming TVET: Building skills for work and life
The recommendations that were agreed during the Congress provide directions regarding areas in which policy dialogue and capacity building are required by Member States at the national, regional and international levels.
























