Building Future Skills and Employability with TVET

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is too often the poor relation in the world of workplace L&D. It’s overlooked in favor of high-profile learning programmes. But things are changing. The global emphasis on reskilling and upskilling, and the need for new skills in a shifting economy means that both organisations and policy makers are taking TVET seriously to ensure employers have the skills they need for the future.

Here we take both a general view of how TVET is working across sectors and look at what individual employers are doing. 

We’ll see how to help individuals, and those that train them, prepare people for skilled work in today’s economy and also explore the blurring boundaries between at-work training and formal education.

Rebecca Garrod-Waters

Chief Executive, Ufi VocTech Trust, United Kingdom

I am passionate about the potential for digital technology to positively transform the way vocational learning is delivered, and the power this will have to positively impact people’s lives and opportunities. At Ufi we have been growing our activity across a wide portfolio of projects designed to impact across the UK, delivering better, faster and more effective vocational training. Ufi has a mission to enable more vocational skills for more people, more of the time, with a focus on increasing learning and skills opportunities for communities, sectors, industries and places that are traditionally ‘unloved’.

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Maren Deepwell

CEO, Association for Learning Technology, United Kingdom

Dr Maren Deepwell is the Chief Executive of ALT, the Association for Learning Technology, the leading professional body for Learning Technology in the UK, representing ~3,500 Members. We support a collaborative community for individuals and organisations from all sectors including Further and Higher Education and industry and provide professional recognition and development. Membership is open to all with a professional interest in using digital technologies for learning, teaching and assessment.

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Inge de Waard

Learning Strategist and Connector, EIT InnoEnergy, Belgium

Inge de Waard is the learning strategist at EIT InnoEnergy, she is a longtime researcher, activist, award-winning learning innovator and (e)Learning coordinator. She developed multiple online & hybrid courses, co-designed AI tools, and embedded learning innovations. Inge coaches and co-creates international, blended curricula with engineers and teachers, and explores innovative learning formats. Her expertise is recognized by peers, resulting in additional co-authored papers, invited talks and keynotes in both academic and professional conferences, workshops and seminars. She recently founded the Power Elders initiative to spotlight role models who changed their lives at any age beyond 50. Most of all, she likes to connect with people and share stories.

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