Blogs

• How are young VET graduates faring in the digital transformation?, Annelore Verhagen, Labour Market Economist, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD (November 2020) 
• What is an apprenticeship?, Pauline Musset, Analyst, Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning Team, OECD Centre for Skills (September 2020)
• How to create apprenticeships that work, **Anthony Mann (October 2018)
• Students need good career guidance, and here’s how schools can give it, Pauline Musset, Analyst, OECD Centre for Skills (July 2018)
• Basic skills: The missing ingredient in England’s apprenticeships, Malgorzata Kuczera, Analyst, Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD. (April 2018)
• Shaping, not predicting, the future of students, **Anthony Mann (January 2018)
• Why it matters if you can't read this. Tanja Bastianic, Statistician, Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD. (September, 2017)
• How students attitudes towards the value of education can be shaped by careers education - evidence from the OECD's PISA study **Anthony Mann (January 2017)
• Career education that works **Anthony Mann (May 2016)
• How should our schools respond to the changing demands of the twenty first century **Anthony Mann (March 2015)
• Under the radar? Professional education and training. *Simon Field (November, 2014)
• Lessons for the UK. Ken Manson, Co-ordinator (Communications), UK Commission for Employment and Skills. (November, 2014)
• Education Policy Outlook: Vocational Pathways in Denmark, France, Germany and Spain. Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD. (April, 2014)
• Understanding Employer Engagement in Education. Anthony Mann, former Director of Policy and Research, Education and Employers Taskforce, UK. (May, 2014)
• Competitions: the secret to developing and measuring skills? David Hoey, CEO of WorldSkills. (July, 2013)
• A skilful approach to employment. Barbara Ischinger, former Director for Education and Skills, OECD. (July, 2013)

* Simon Field, former Project Leader, OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning, OECD. 

** Anthony Mann, former Project Leader, OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning, OECD. 

Videos 

• Anthony Mann,** Project Lead, presents the OECD working paper Working it Out: Career Guidance and Employer Engagement which reviews international evidence to identify effective policy and practice, including the essential role of employer engagement in career guidance (July 2018). Watch the video here. 
• Anthony Mann's** presentation at the 5th International Conference on Employer Engagement in Education and Training 2018, organised by Education and Employers and the Edge Foundation (London, July 2018). Watch his presentation here. 
• Anthony Mann,** Project Lead, presents the work of the OECD VET and adult learning team (January 2018). Watch the video here. 
• Simon Field,* opened the International Conference on Employer Engagement in Education and Training (London, July 2016) with his paper Between Two Worlds: Education and Work. Based on his extensive working experience with the OECD, he set out three major challenges in bridging the gap between education and employment: culture, institutions and economics. Watch his presentation here.
• Simon Field,* gave a keynote address to the Meeting of European Ministers of Vocational Education and Training under the Latvian presidency, focusing on challenges to Europe from emerging economies, work-based learning and the need for innovation in VET systems, on 22 June 2015. (His presentation begins 50 minutes into the video.)
• Simon Field,* was part of a panel of discussants at the New America Foundation event “The Great Skills Race: Innovations in U.S. Education and Training from a Global Perspective" on 21 May 2015 in Washington D.C.  A video of the event can be viewed via this link. 
• Presentation of the OECD publication Skills Beyond School: Synthesis Report at the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid on 9 April 2015. Presentations by Simon Field* and Monserrat Gomendio Kindelan (former State Secretary for Education, Vocational Training and Universities, Spain). The event can be viewed here.
• The Skills beyond School review of the United States was released on 10 July 2013 at a launch event at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C.

* Simon Field, former Project Leader, OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning, OECD. 

** Anthony Mann, former Project Leader, OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning, OECD

Key publications

Seven Questions about Apprenticeships: Answers from International Experience (2018)

Abridged version in French - L'apprentissage et l'alternance en sept questions : Leçons des expériences internationales

Country reports on vocational education and adult learning

OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training: Key Messages and Country Summaries 

Skills Beyond School: Synthesis Report (2014)

Learning for Jobs (2010, comparative report)

• Summary (English / French / German)
• Key policy messages from Learning for Jobs

Papers

OECD Secretariat papers 

• Adults with low literacy and numeracy skills: A literature review on policy interventions (2015) 
• Costs and Benefits in Vocational Education and Training (2008)
• VET in PISA: Results from PISA 2003 and 2006 (2008)
• Policy Appraisal and Evaluation for Vocational Education and Training (VET) Policy (2008)
• Learning for Jobs. The OECD International Survey of VET Systems: First Results and Technical Report (2008)
• Key Evidence on Vocational Education and Training Policy from Previous OECD Work (2007)

Papers prepared by other experts

• School Funding Formulas: Review of Main Characteristics and Impacts (2012)
• Career Guidance and Post-Secondary Vocational Education and Training by A.G. Watts (2010)
• Career and Technical Education in the United States by Emily Forrest Cataldi (2009)
• The Effect of Economic Downturns on Apprenticeships and Initial Workplace Training: A Review of the Evidence by Giorgio Brunello (2009)
• The Relationship of Career Guidance to VET by A.G. Watts (2009)
• Vocational Education and Training: Issues for a Thematic Review by Norton Grubb (2006)