2025/03/20 By UNESCO Chair on Digitalization in TVET
A groundbreaking report titled “Global TVET Innovation Trends 2025” was released at the International Education Innovation Trends Seminar in Beijing on January 23, 2025, jointly organized by the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences and People’s Daily. The report identifies eight transformative trends that are reshaping the landscape of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) worldwide.
Key Innovation Trends
1. Public Good Orientation
In the strong promotion of countries worldwide and international organizations, TVET increasingly demonstrates its public good attributes. It plays a vital role in government basic public services, promoting social equity, poverty reduction and sustainable development, and advancing social and industrial development.
2. Holistic Skills Development
The widespread application of digitalization and automation is restructuring the connotation of technical skills and job demand structure. Traditional professional skills characterized by simple operations and single-post skills can no longer meet socioeconomic requirements. TVET’s training objectives are shifting from single-dimensional skill transfer to multi-dimensional human development, transforming from cultivating “job-specific individuals” to “well-rounded professionals”.
3. Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
The international community has gradually formed a consensus on TVET system construction and created different development models according to local conditions. Countries worldwide are dedicated to building multi-stakeholder collaboration mechanisms to deepen industry-education integration, breaking traditional education model constraints and promoting close cooperation among government, schools, enterprises, and society to ensure TVET content highly aligns with market demands.
4. Digital Transformation
Under the digital economy wave and industrial revolution trends, digital transformation has become an important direction for educational transformation worldwide, and global promotion of TVET digital transformation has become inevitable. On one hand, digital technology empowers TVET transformation. On the other hand, TVET enables industrial digital upgrading.
5. Ubiquitous Lifelong Learning
As technological revolution and industrial transformation continue to deepen, job turnover is accelerating, and skills learning, updating, and reshaping have become people’s continuous pursuit in future society. To address learners’ whole lifecycle needs for skill learning, updating, and reshaping, TVET increasingly shows on-demand, flexible, and personalized characteristics.
6. Dual-qualified Teachers
The international community increasingly emphasizes expanding compatible career development paths for TVET teachers, stressing “dual qualification” - teachers need both solid professional theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience, with the ability to freely switch between “teacher” and “professional” roles.
7. Strengthened Legal and Regulatory Systems
Countries worldwide are reinforcing their legal frameworks to ensure sustainable TVET development. This includes integrating TVET provisions into fundamental education laws, establishing dedicated TVET legislation, developing comprehensive qualification frameworks, and implementing robust quality assurance systems. These legal foundations provide essential structure and credibility to TVET programs while facilitating international recognition and mobility of qualifications.
8. International Integration
Globalization has promoted close economic, cultural, and social connections between countries, making cross-border employment a trend. TVET has become an important driving force for global mobility of industrial skilled talents through developing internationally competitive skilled personnel, building international learning and competition platforms, and promoting regional and global vocational standards co-construction.
Research Methodology
The report’s conclusions are based on:
Analysis of global TVET development trends
Evaluation of key innovation drivers and challenges
Identification of emerging best practices
Synthesis of expert insights and recommendations
Examination of policy implications and future scenarios
（Source: Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, 2024）
This newsletter aligns with SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), supporting the vision of the UNESCO Strategy for TVET (2022–2029): Transforming TVET for successful and just transitions.
Feedback or collaboration ideas?Contacttvetsz@szpu.edu.cn
2025/03/20 By UNESCO Chair on Digitalization in TVET
A groundbreaking report titled “Global TVET Innovation Trends 2025” was released at the International Education Innovation Trends Seminar in Beijing on January 23, 2025, jointly organized by the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences and People’s Daily. The report identifies eight transformative trends that are reshaping the landscape of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) worldwide.
Key Innovation Trends
1. Public Good Orientation
In the strong promotion of countries worldwide and international organizations, TVET increasingly demonstrates its public good attributes. It plays a vital role in government basic public services, promoting social equity, poverty reduction and sustainable development, and advancing social and industrial development.
2. Holistic Skills Development
The widespread application of digitalization and automation is restructuring the connotation of technical skills and job demand structure. Traditional professional skills characterized by simple operations and single-post skills can no longer meet socioeconomic requirements. TVET’s training objectives are shifting from single-dimensional skill transfer to multi-dimensional human development, transforming from cultivating “job-specific individuals” to “well-rounded professionals”.
3. Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
The international community has gradually formed a consensus on TVET system construction and created different development models according to local conditions. Countries worldwide are dedicated to building multi-stakeholder collaboration mechanisms to deepen industry-education integration, breaking traditional education model constraints and promoting close cooperation among government, schools, enterprises, and society to ensure TVET content highly aligns with market demands.
4. Digital Transformation
Under the digital economy wave and industrial revolution trends, digital transformation has become an important direction for educational transformation worldwide, and global promotion of TVET digital transformation has become inevitable. On one hand, digital technology empowers TVET transformation. On the other hand, TVET enables industrial digital upgrading.
5. Ubiquitous Lifelong Learning
As technological revolution and industrial transformation continue to deepen, job turnover is accelerating, and skills learning, updating, and reshaping have become people’s continuous pursuit in future society. To address learners’ whole lifecycle needs for skill learning, updating, and reshaping, TVET increasingly shows on-demand, flexible, and personalized characteristics.
6. Dual-qualified Teachers
The international community increasingly emphasizes expanding compatible career development paths for TVET teachers, stressing “dual qualification” - teachers need both solid professional theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience, with the ability to freely switch between “teacher” and “professional” roles.
7. Strengthened Legal and Regulatory Systems
Countries worldwide are reinforcing their legal frameworks to ensure sustainable TVET development. This includes integrating TVET provisions into fundamental education laws, establishing dedicated TVET legislation, developing comprehensive qualification frameworks, and implementing robust quality assurance systems. These legal foundations provide essential structure and credibility to TVET programs while facilitating international recognition and mobility of qualifications.
8. International Integration
Globalization has promoted close economic, cultural, and social connections between countries, making cross-border employment a trend. TVET has become an important driving force for global mobility of industrial skilled talents through developing internationally competitive skilled personnel, building international learning and competition platforms, and promoting regional and global vocational standards co-construction.
Research Methodology
The report’s conclusions are based on:
Analysis of global TVET development trends
Evaluation of key innovation drivers and challenges
Identification of emerging best practices
Synthesis of expert insights and recommendations
Examination of policy implications and future scenarios
（Source: Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, 2024）
This newsletter aligns with SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), supporting the vision of the UNESCO Strategy for TVET (2022–2029): Transforming TVET for successful and just transitions.
Feedback or collaboration ideas?Contacttvetsz@szpu.edu.cn
2025/03/20 By UNESCO Chair on Digitalization in TVET
A groundbreaking report titled “Global TVET Innovation Trends 2025” was released at the International Education Innovation Trends Seminar in Beijing on January 23, 2025, jointly organized by the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences and People’s Daily. The report identifies eight transformative trends that are reshaping the landscape of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) worldwide.
Key Innovation Trends
1. Public Good Orientation
In the strong promotion of countries worldwide and international organizations, TVET increasingly demonstrates its public good attributes. It plays a vital role in government basic public services, promoting social equity, poverty reduction and sustainable development, and advancing social and industrial development.
2. Holistic Skills Development
The widespread application of digitalization and automation is restructuring the connotation of technical skills and job demand structure. Traditional professional skills characterized by simple operations and single-post skills can no longer meet socioeconomic requirements. TVET’s training objectives are shifting from single-dimensional skill transfer to multi-dimensional human development, transforming from cultivating “job-specific individuals” to “well-rounded professionals”.
3. Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
The international community has gradually formed a consensus on TVET system construction and created different development models according to local conditions. Countries worldwide are dedicated to building multi-stakeholder collaboration mechanisms to deepen industry-education integration, breaking traditional education model constraints and promoting close cooperation among government, schools, enterprises, and society to ensure TVET content highly aligns with market demands.
4. Digital Transformation
Under the digital economy wave and industrial revolution trends, digital transformation has become an important direction for educational transformation worldwide, and global promotion of TVET digital transformation has become inevitable. On one hand, digital technology empowers TVET transformation. On the other hand, TVET enables industrial digital upgrading.
5. Ubiquitous Lifelong Learning
As technological revolution and industrial transformation continue to deepen, job turnover is accelerating, and skills learning, updating, and reshaping have become people’s continuous pursuit in future society. To address learners’ whole lifecycle needs for skill learning, updating, and reshaping, TVET increasingly shows on-demand, flexible, and personalized characteristics.
6. Dual-qualified Teachers
The international community increasingly emphasizes expanding compatible career development paths for TVET teachers, stressing “dual qualification” - teachers need both solid professional theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience, with the ability to freely switch between “teacher” and “professional” roles.
7. Strengthened Legal and Regulatory Systems
Countries worldwide are reinforcing their legal frameworks to ensure sustainable TVET development. This includes integrating TVET provisions into fundamental education laws, establishing dedicated TVET legislation, developing comprehensive qualification frameworks, and implementing robust quality assurance systems. These legal foundations provide essential structure and credibility to TVET programs while facilitating international recognition and mobility of qualifications.
8. International Integration
Globalization has promoted close economic, cultural, and social connections between countries, making cross-border employment a trend. TVET has become an important driving force for global mobility of industrial skilled talents through developing internationally competitive skilled personnel, building international learning and competition platforms, and promoting regional and global vocational standards co-construction.
Research Methodology
The report’s conclusions are based on:
Analysis of global TVET development trends
Evaluation of key innovation drivers and challenges
Identification of emerging best practices
Synthesis of expert insights and recommendations
Examination of policy implications and future scenarios
（Source: Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, 2024）
This newsletter aligns with SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), supporting the vision of the UNESCO Strategy for TVET (2022–2029): Transforming TVET for successful and just transitions.
Feedback or collaboration ideas?Contacttvetsz@szpu.edu.cn
2025/03/20 By UNESCO Chair on Digitalization in TVET
A groundbreaking report titled “Global TVET Innovation Trends 2025” was released at the International Education Innovation Trends Seminar in Beijing on January 23, 2025, jointly organized by the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences and People’s Daily. The report identifies eight transformative trends that are reshaping the landscape of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) worldwide.
Key Innovation Trends
1. Public Good Orientation
In the strong promotion of countries worldwide and international organizations, TVET increasingly demonstrates its public good attributes. It plays a vital role in government basic public services, promoting social equity, poverty reduction and sustainable development, and advancing social and industrial development.
2. Holistic Skills Development
The widespread application of digitalization and automation is restructuring the connotation of technical skills and job demand structure. Traditional professional skills characterized by simple operations and single-post skills can no longer meet socioeconomic requirements. TVET’s training objectives are shifting from single-dimensional skill transfer to multi-dimensional human development, transforming from cultivating “job-specific individuals” to “well-rounded professionals”.
3. Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
The international community has gradually formed a consensus on TVET system construction and created different development models according to local conditions. Countries worldwide are dedicated to building multi-stakeholder collaboration mechanisms to deepen industry-education integration, breaking traditional education model constraints and promoting close cooperation among government, schools, enterprises, and society to ensure TVET content highly aligns with market demands.
4. Digital Transformation
Under the digital economy wave and industrial revolution trends, digital transformation has become an important direction for educational transformation worldwide, and global promotion of TVET digital transformation has become inevitable. On one hand, digital technology empowers TVET transformation. On the other hand, TVET enables industrial digital upgrading.
5. Ubiquitous Lifelong Learning
As technological revolution and industrial transformation continue to deepen, job turnover is accelerating, and skills learning, updating, and reshaping have become people’s continuous pursuit in future society. To address learners’ whole lifecycle needs for skill learning, updating, and reshaping, TVET increasingly shows on-demand, flexible, and personalized characteristics.
6. Dual-qualified Teachers
The international community increasingly emphasizes expanding compatible career development paths for TVET teachers, stressing “dual qualification” - teachers need both solid professional theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience, with the ability to freely switch between “teacher” and “professional” roles.
7. Strengthened Legal and Regulatory Systems
Countries worldwide are reinforcing their legal frameworks to ensure sustainable TVET development. This includes integrating TVET provisions into fundamental education laws, establishing dedicated TVET legislation, developing comprehensive qualification frameworks, and implementing robust quality assurance systems. These legal foundations provide essential structure and credibility to TVET programs while facilitating international recognition and mobility of qualifications.
8. International Integration
Globalization has promoted close economic, cultural, and social connections between countries, making cross-border employment a trend. TVET has become an important driving force for global mobility of industrial skilled talents through developing internationally competitive skilled personnel, building international learning and competition platforms, and promoting regional and global vocational standards co-construction.
Research Methodology
The report’s conclusions are based on:
Analysis of global TVET development trends
Evaluation of key innovation drivers and challenges
Identification of emerging best practices
Synthesis of expert insights and recommendations
Examination of policy implications and future scenarios
（Source: Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, 2024）
This newsletter aligns with SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), supporting the vision of the UNESCO Strategy for TVET (2022–2029): Transforming TVET for successful and just transitions.
Feedback or collaboration ideas?Contacttvetsz@szpu.edu.cn
2025/03/20 By UNESCO Chair on Digitalization in TVET
A groundbreaking report titled “Global TVET Innovation Trends 2025” was released at the International Education Innovation Trends Seminar in Beijing on January 23, 2025, jointly organized by the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences and People’s Daily. The report identifies eight transformative trends that are reshaping the landscape of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) worldwide.
Key Innovation Trends
1. Public Good Orientation
In the strong promotion of countries worldwide and international organizations, TVET increasingly demonstrates its public good attributes. It plays a vital role in government basic public services, promoting social equity, poverty reduction and sustainable development, and advancing social and industrial development.
2. Holistic Skills Development
The widespread application of digitalization and automation is restructuring the connotation of technical skills and job demand structure. Traditional professional skills characterized by simple operations and single-post skills can no longer meet socioeconomic requirements. TVET’s training objectives are shifting from single-dimensional skill transfer to multi-dimensional human development, transforming from cultivating “job-specific individuals” to “well-rounded professionals”.
3. Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
The international community has gradually formed a consensus on TVET system construction and created different development models according to local conditions. Countries worldwide are dedicated to building multi-stakeholder collaboration mechanisms to deepen industry-education integration, breaking traditional education model constraints and promoting close cooperation among government, schools, enterprises, and society to ensure TVET content highly aligns with market demands.
4. Digital Transformation
Under the digital economy wave and industrial revolution trends, digital transformation has become an important direction for educational transformation worldwide, and global promotion of TVET digital transformation has become inevitable. On one hand, digital technology empowers TVET transformation. On the other hand, TVET enables industrial digital upgrading.
5. Ubiquitous Lifelong Learning
As technological revolution and industrial transformation continue to deepen, job turnover is accelerating, and skills learning, updating, and reshaping have become people’s continuous pursuit in future society. To address learners’ whole lifecycle needs for skill learning, updating, and reshaping, TVET increasingly shows on-demand, flexible, and personalized characteristics.
6. Dual-qualified Teachers
The international community increasingly emphasizes expanding compatible career development paths for TVET teachers, stressing “dual qualification” - teachers need both solid professional theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience, with the ability to freely switch between “teacher” and “professional” roles.
7. Strengthened Legal and Regulatory Systems
Countries worldwide are reinforcing their legal frameworks to ensure sustainable TVET development. This includes integrating TVET provisions into fundamental education laws, establishing dedicated TVET legislation, developing comprehensive qualification frameworks, and implementing robust quality assurance systems. These legal foundations provide essential structure and credibility to TVET programs while facilitating international recognition and mobility of qualifications.
8. International Integration
Globalization has promoted close economic, cultural, and social connections between countries, making cross-border employment a trend. TVET has become an important driving force for global mobility of industrial skilled talents through developing internationally competitive skilled personnel, building international learning and competition platforms, and promoting regional and global vocational standards co-construction.
Research Methodology
The report’s conclusions are based on:
Analysis of global TVET development trends
Evaluation of key innovation drivers and challenges
Identification of emerging best practices
Synthesis of expert insights and recommendations
Examination of policy implications and future scenarios
（Source: Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, 2024）
This newsletter aligns with SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), supporting the vision of the UNESCO Strategy for TVET (2022–2029): Transforming TVET for successful and just transitions.
Feedback or collaboration ideas?Contacttvetsz@szpu.edu.cn
2025/03/20 By UNESCO Chair on Digitalization in TVET
A groundbreaking report titled “Global TVET Innovation Trends 2025” was released at the International Education Innovation Trends Seminar in Beijing on January 23, 2025, jointly organized by the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences and People’s Daily. The report identifies eight transformative trends that are reshaping the landscape of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) worldwide.
Key Innovation Trends
1. Public Good Orientation
In the strong promotion of countries worldwide and international organizations, TVET increasingly demonstrates its public good attributes. It plays a vital role in government basic public services, promoting social equity, poverty reduction and sustainable development, and advancing social and industrial development.
2. Holistic Skills Development
The widespread application of digitalization and automation is restructuring the connotation of technical skills and job demand structure. Traditional professional skills characterized by simple operations and single-post skills can no longer meet socioeconomic requirements. TVET’s training objectives are shifting from single-dimensional skill transfer to multi-dimensional human development, transforming from cultivating “job-specific individuals” to “well-rounded professionals”.
3. Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
The international community has gradually formed a consensus on TVET system construction and created different development models according to local conditions. Countries worldwide are dedicated to building multi-stakeholder collaboration mechanisms to deepen industry-education integration, breaking traditional education model constraints and promoting close cooperation among government, schools, enterprises, and society to ensure TVET content highly aligns with market demands.
4. Digital Transformation
Under the digital economy wave and industrial revolution trends, digital transformation has become an important direction for educational transformation worldwide, and global promotion of TVET digital transformation has become inevitable. On one hand, digital technology empowers TVET transformation. On the other hand, TVET enables industrial digital upgrading.
5. Ubiquitous Lifelong Learning
As technological revolution and industrial transformation continue to deepen, job turnover is accelerating, and skills learning, updating, and reshaping have become people’s continuous pursuit in future society. To address learners’ whole lifecycle needs for skill learning, updating, and reshaping, TVET increasingly shows on-demand, flexible, and personalized characteristics.
6. Dual-qualified Teachers
The international community increasingly emphasizes expanding compatible career development paths for TVET teachers, stressing “dual qualification” - teachers need both solid professional theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience, with the ability to freely switch between “teacher” and “professional” roles.
7. Strengthened Legal and Regulatory Systems
Countries worldwide are reinforcing their legal frameworks to ensure sustainable TVET development. This includes integrating TVET provisions into fundamental education laws, establishing dedicated TVET legislation, developing comprehensive qualification frameworks, and implementing robust quality assurance systems. These legal foundations provide essential structure and credibility to TVET programs while facilitating international recognition and mobility of qualifications.
8. International Integration
Globalization has promoted close economic, cultural, and social connections between countries, making cross-border employment a trend. TVET has become an important driving force for global mobility of industrial skilled talents through developing internationally competitive skilled personnel, building international learning and competition platforms, and promoting regional and global vocational standards co-construction.
Research Methodology
The report’s conclusions are based on:
Analysis of global TVET development trends
Evaluation of key innovation drivers and challenges
Identification of emerging best practices
Synthesis of expert insights and recommendations
Examination of policy implications and future scenarios
（Source: Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, 2024）
This newsletter aligns with SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), supporting the vision of the UNESCO Strategy for TVET (2022–2029): Transforming TVET for successful and just transitions.
Feedback or collaboration ideas?Contacttvetsz@szpu.edu.cn
2025/03/20 By UNESCO Chair on Digitalization in TVET
A groundbreaking report titled “Global TVET Innovation Trends 2025” was released at the International Education Innovation Trends Seminar in Beijing on January 23, 2025, jointly organized by the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences and People’s Daily. The report identifies eight transformative trends that are reshaping the landscape of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) worldwide.
Key Innovation Trends
1. Public Good Orientation
In the strong promotion of countries worldwide and international organizations, TVET increasingly demonstrates its public good attributes. It plays a vital role in government basic public services, promoting social equity, poverty reduction and sustainable development, and advancing social and industrial development.
2. Holistic Skills Development
The widespread application of digitalization and automation is restructuring the connotation of technical skills and job demand structure. Traditional professional skills characterized by simple operations and single-post skills can no longer meet socioeconomic requirements. TVET’s training objectives are shifting from single-dimensional skill transfer to multi-dimensional human development, transforming from cultivating “job-specific individuals” to “well-rounded professionals”.
3. Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
The international community has gradually formed a consensus on TVET system construction and created different development models according to local conditions. Countries worldwide are dedicated to building multi-stakeholder collaboration mechanisms to deepen industry-education integration, breaking traditional education model constraints and promoting close cooperation among government, schools, enterprises, and society to ensure TVET content highly aligns with market demands.
4. Digital Transformation
Under the digital economy wave and industrial revolution trends, digital transformation has become an important direction for educational transformation worldwide, and global promotion of TVET digital transformation has become inevitable. On one hand, digital technology empowers TVET transformation. On the other hand, TVET enables industrial digital upgrading.
5. Ubiquitous Lifelong Learning
As technological revolution and industrial transformation continue to deepen, job turnover is accelerating, and skills learning, updating, and reshaping have become people’s continuous pursuit in future society. To address learners’ whole lifecycle needs for skill learning, updating, and reshaping, TVET increasingly shows on-demand, flexible, and personalized characteristics.
6. Dual-qualified Teachers
The international community increasingly emphasizes expanding compatible career development paths for TVET teachers, stressing “dual qualification” - teachers need both solid professional theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience, with the ability to freely switch between “teacher” and “professional” roles.
7. Strengthened Legal and Regulatory Systems
Countries worldwide are reinforcing their legal frameworks to ensure sustainable TVET development. This includes integrating TVET provisions into fundamental education laws, establishing dedicated TVET legislation, developing comprehensive qualification frameworks, and implementing robust quality assurance systems. These legal foundations provide essential structure and credibility to TVET programs while facilitating international recognition and mobility of qualifications.
8. International Integration
Globalization has promoted close economic, cultural, and social connections between countries, making cross-border employment a trend. TVET has become an important driving force for global mobility of industrial skilled talents through developing internationally competitive skilled personnel, building international learning and competition platforms, and promoting regional and global vocational standards co-construction.
Research Methodology
The report’s conclusions are based on:
Analysis of global TVET development trends
Evaluation of key innovation drivers and challenges
Identification of emerging best practices
Synthesis of expert insights and recommendations
Examination of policy implications and future scenarios
（Source: Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, 2024）
This newsletter aligns with SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), supporting the vision of the UNESCO Strategy for TVET (2022–2029): Transforming TVET for successful and just transitions.
Feedback or collaboration ideas?Contacttvetsz@szpu.edu.cn
2025/03/20 By UNESCO Chair on Digitalization in TVET
A groundbreaking report titled “Global TVET Innovation Trends 2025” was released at the International Education Innovation Trends Seminar in Beijing on January 23, 2025, jointly organized by the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences and People’s Daily. The report identifies eight transformative trends that are reshaping the landscape of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) worldwide.
Key Innovation Trends
1. Public Good Orientation
In the strong promotion of countries worldwide and international organizations, TVET increasingly demonstrates its public good attributes. It plays a vital role in government basic public services, promoting social equity, poverty reduction and sustainable development, and advancing social and industrial development.
2. Holistic Skills Development
The widespread application of digitalization and automation is restructuring the connotation of technical skills and job demand structure. Traditional professional skills characterized by simple operations and single-post skills can no longer meet socioeconomic requirements. TVET’s training objectives are shifting from single-dimensional skill transfer to multi-dimensional human development, transforming from cultivating “job-specific individuals” to “well-rounded professionals”.
3. Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
The international community has gradually formed a consensus on TVET system construction and created different development models according to local conditions. Countries worldwide are dedicated to building multi-stakeholder collaboration mechanisms to deepen industry-education integration, breaking traditional education model constraints and promoting close cooperation among government, schools, enterprises, and society to ensure TVET content highly aligns with market demands.
4. Digital Transformation
Under the digital economy wave and industrial revolution trends, digital transformation has become an important direction for educational transformation worldwide, and global promotion of TVET digital transformation has become inevitable. On one hand, digital technology empowers TVET transformation. On the other hand, TVET enables industrial digital upgrading.
5. Ubiquitous Lifelong Learning
As technological revolution and industrial transformation continue to deepen, job turnover is accelerating, and skills learning, updating, and reshaping have become people’s continuous pursuit in future society. To address learners’ whole lifecycle needs for skill learning, updating, and reshaping, TVET increasingly shows on-demand, flexible, and personalized characteristics.
6. Dual-qualified Teachers
The international community increasingly emphasizes expanding compatible career development paths for TVET teachers, stressing “dual qualification” - teachers need both solid professional theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience, with the ability to freely switch between “teacher” and “professional” roles.
7. Strengthened Legal and Regulatory Systems
Countries worldwide are reinforcing their legal frameworks to ensure sustainable TVET development. This includes integrating TVET provisions into fundamental education laws, establishing dedicated TVET legislation, developing comprehensive qualification frameworks, and implementing robust quality assurance systems. These legal foundations provide essential structure and credibility to TVET programs while facilitating international recognition and mobility of qualifications.
8. International Integration
Globalization has promoted close economic, cultural, and social connections between countries, making cross-border employment a trend. TVET has become an important driving force for global mobility of industrial skilled talents through developing internationally competitive skilled personnel, building international learning and competition platforms, and promoting regional and global vocational standards co-construction.
Research Methodology
The report’s conclusions are based on:
Analysis of global TVET development trends
Evaluation of key innovation drivers and challenges
Identification of emerging best practices
Synthesis of expert insights and recommendations
Examination of policy implications and future scenarios
（Source: Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, 2024）
This newsletter aligns with SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), supporting the vision of the UNESCO Strategy for TVET (2022–2029): Transforming TVET for successful and just transitions.
Feedback or collaboration ideas?Contacttvetsz@szpu.edu.cn
