Tagged: life skills

From Learning to Earning: Alternative Credentials and Youth Employment

Education

By Julia Sellers, Bassem Nasir, and Rachel Cooper

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the global learning and skills crisis. Before the pandemic, 267 million youth (15-24) were not in employment, education and training (NEET), two-thirds of whom were young women due to gendered expectations of unpaid family work and informal employment. Globally, over 73% of youth experienced the closure… Read more →←

Why measure the skills children and youth need for life?

Education

By Bassem Nasir, Manuel Cardoso, and Rachel Cooper

Transferable skills – sometimes also called life skills, 21st Century skills or socioemotional skills – are essential to all of us and act as “the glue of all skills”, including foundational skills, digital skills, job-specific skills, and entrepreneurial skills, enabling us to learn, work, participate in society, and in a… Read more →←

Failing to Read: Why global disparities in reading skills matter and what we can do about it

Data and Research Education Evidence

By Robert Jenkins, Haogen Yao, Kenneth Russell

As we walked through classrooms in Bangladesh,  we were struck by the hope and aspirations of the children. Already, children in grades three or four, said they wanted to be teachers, scientists, and prime ministers. They knew they must get an education in order achieve these dreams, but like so many children around the world, without… Read more →←

Promising Futures: Vocational training programme in rural Bangladesh

Adolescents Education

By Cirenia Chávez and Annika Rigole

This is the second in a two-part blog series that draws from the authors’ field visit to Let Us Learn programme sites in Bangladesh in February 2020.  The first part can be found here. In a town in the rural Sumanganj District of Bangladesh, we met recent graduates of  Alternative Learning Pathways, a Let Us Learn-supported programme… Read more →←

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