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Designing local skills strategies

Designing local skills strategies . Francesca Froy, OECD LEED Programme . Workforce development is economic development . The rising importance of skills within local development strategies Demand for higher level skills - the influence of new technologies and globalisation

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Designing local skills strategies

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  1. Designing local skills strategies Francesca Froy, OECD LEED Programme

  2. Workforce development is economic development • The rising importance of skills within local development strategies • Demand for higher level skills - the influence of new technologies and globalisation • Demographic change and declining self-sufficiency at the local level

  3. Supply Local variation Demand

  4. Balancing skills strategies Attraction & retention Integrated localskills strategies Up-skilling Integration

  5. Attracting & retaining talent • Taking a holistic approach • Attracting the ‘creative class’ • Influencing national immigration systems Schools Diversity & tolerance Accessibility SKILLS Quality of life

  6. Integration into the labour market • Integrating immigrants and their offspring • Targeting those with basic skills • Changing aspirations

  7. Upgrading the skills of the low qualified • Linking up fragmentedsystem • Customised training • A challenging policy agenda in areas of low skilled equilibrium

  8. Returning Chinese émigrés Specialised training centres within enterprises of industry leaders in major industrial sub-sectors Shanghai Attraction Upgrading Integration Integrating rural migrants

  9. Careers fairs, marketing campaigns, summer camps Career ladder program for entry-level nurses Michigan Attraction e.g. Partnering with public health agencies to address job retention issues (e.g. substance abuse) Upgrading Integration Collaboration among community colleges to coordinate & modularise training curriculum

  10. 26 targeted language courses to enable immigrants to obtain higher level jobs Upgrading Food industry technical training partnership (led by local university) South East Lincolnshire, UK Attraction Integrating Engaging the unemployed and raising participation

  11. Making it work • Joining up • disparate services • Decentralised responsibilities • Balancing resources • A long-term approach

  12. Thank you for your attention! • www.oecd.org/cfe/leed • francesca.froy@oecd.org

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