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Tunisia Towards vocational excellence: Building skills ecosystems for the future
Towards Vocational Excellence: Building Skills Ecosystems for the Future explores how vocational education and training (VET) is evolving to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world of work. Driven by artificial intelligence, digitalisation, automation, climate change, and the green transition, VET is no longer limited to job preparation but is emerging as a key driver of innovation, inclusion, competitiveness, and resilience. The publication highlights the role of Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) as dynamic hubs that connect education, research, industry, and society, ensuring that skills development supports both people and systems.
Based on the experience of the ETF Network for Excellence (ENE) with more than 330 institutions across 50+ countries, the report presents insights on skills ecosystems, lifelong learning, quality assurance, teacher empowerment, internationalisation, and policy frameworks. It introduces practical tools such as the ENE Self-Assessment Tool (ENESAT) and the International Self-Assessment Tool for CoVEs (ISATCOVE), showing how VET institutions can benchmark, innovate, and grow. The document positions vocational excellence not as an elite goal but as a systemic approach for building future-ready skills, green and digital competences, and inclusive labour markets.
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