Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) helps learners to acquire skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to enter the world of work.

A quality TVET programme plays an essential role in promoting a country’s economic growth and contributing to poverty reduction as well as ensuring the social and economical inclusion of marginalized communities.

However, it is estimated that only 10 per cent of secondary school students worldwide are enrolled in school-based technical and vocational programmes. Vocational training is mainly provided outside the formal school system.

UNESCO strongly supports the development of competency-based and employment-led TVET programmes that are adapted to a country’s socio-economic context and to worldwide technological development.