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Launched in 2017, the Centre for Skills is a policy center within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that supports countries in developing skills throughout people's lives and improving the ways those skills are used in economies, workplaces, and society. The Centre examines skills as a cross-cutting policy issue involving education, workforce development, economic policy, employers, labor markets, adult learning, and social policy. Its work includes:
The Centre works with national and regional governments to assess skills systems, develop policy recommendations, improve governance, and implement national skills strategies. It uses comparative international evidence, policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, and peer learning.
The Centre also leads or contributes to the OECD’s Skills Outlook, a biennial publication examining how skills development and use are affected by economic and social changes. Recent editions have addressed topics including lifelong learning, green and digital transitions, global value chains, and 21st-century skills.
The OECD began developing its first Skills Strategy in 2012, seeking to connect education, labor, and economic policies more systematically. National Skills Strategy projects subsequently began working with individual countries to assess their skills systems and identify policy priorities.
The OECD reports that it has undertaken Skills Strategy projects since 2014 and has worked with numerous countries and regions on skills-policy development and implementation.
The Centre for Skills emerged from this broader cross-organizational work and was operating as a dedicated OECD by 2017. By 2018, its principal areas of work included national skills strategies, vocational education and training and adult learning, and skills analysis.
The Centre for Skills is part of the OECD and works across multiple directorates because skills policy spans education, employment, social, economic, digital, and regional-development issues. Its work receives strategic oversight from the OECD’s Education Policy Committee and input from bodies including the Group of National Experts on Vocational Education and Training and the Skills Advisory Group. Governments, employer organizations, worker representatives, international organizations, and other skills stakeholders contribute to its projects and policy work.
Individual Centre projects may also be supported by participating countries or external public funding programs. For example, some country projects are funded through the European Union's Technical Support Instrument and implemented jointly with national governments and the European Commission.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Centre for Skills. https://www.oecd.org/en/about/directorates/centre-for-skills.html
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Skills strategies. https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/skills-strategies.html
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