UNESCO Office in Bangkok: Literacy and Lifelong Learning

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What Skills for the World of Work: Studies Discuss
30.03.13
Studies indicate that executives from around the world consider skills shortages as one of their top five pressing concerns. In fact, 80% of employers report a serious skills gap in Japan, followed by India with 67% (Manpower, 2011). Closing the skills gaps is a global challenge and there growing concern that this gap is only strengthened by the misalignment of education systems to the realities of the labor market.

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