Why we care about skills and learning:
Sources of policy interest
- Skills are important to several pressing policy issues;
- Concerns
about skill barriers to economic growth, productivity
growth and rates of technological
innovation
- Concerns about the role of skill in creating
social inequity in economic outcomes
- Concerns about the
quality of educational output
- Key policy
drivers:
- Demographics
- Globalization of markets
- Multinationals
- Diffusion
of information and communication technologies
- Competition
from the developing world