on-line conference
Conference
Who will benefit from the conference?
- HR-directors and Training & Development managers
- Researchers of skills and competencies in the field of education
- Executives and administrators of educational institutions
- Representatives of government agencies responsible for education reform
Why I Should Attend
Evaluation and development of human capital, skills and competencies are the central themes of any progressive society today. Contemporary challenges prescribe the transition to more complicated problems solving, complex decision making, working with large amounts of complex information, the development of core competencies for everyone. Today, only the presence of developed competences determines a person’s potential and enables to take rightful place in society. Critical thinking, problem solving in technology-rich environments, highly developed communication, teamwork and many other skills and competences become prerequisites to obtaining success in modern society. Literacy in modern information society is one of the strong requirements to a specialist of the XXI century..
Key competences are priority strategic educational benchmarks standing as a possible mechanism for improving human capital and developmental level of economic well-being of country and every citizen.
Today, the government, educational institutions and business - society as a whole, taken aback by the presence of vectors that would have painted with precision a picture of skills and competencies that are in demand at labor market and essential to realize professional and daily tasks . To maintain this goal is utmost important to raise questions and search them in the international research agenda.
PIAAC is an international research of competencies and their application in everyday life and professional activity of adult population. Full results of the research, perspectives and recommendations regarding the development of adult literacy will be first presented at the conference.
Results of the research offer opportunities to improve education policy, corporate practices in educational and developmental programs design and continuing prospective research of key professional competencies that employers, labor market and society as a whole are interested in today.
Leading experts and representatives of the education sector and employers will come together for the first time to answer the following questions:
- Why is there a misbalance of supply and demand for competences and what to do?
- Do we need to create educational programs for adults, "screwing up" necessary competencies?
- How to develop the key competencies?
- How are key competencies formed among Russian adult population?
- How to build education future?
- What are the opportunities to improve the system of education and training for people of working age?
Each conference participant obtained answers to these questions has the opportunity to increase his level of literacy as well, as based on the research results:
Adults with higher literacy skills work more, experience less unemployment, earn more, spend less time unemployed and rely less on government transfers. (Osberg, 2000; Statistics Canada and the OECD, 2005)
