Market-Relevant Curriculum

Vocational education is supposed to serve the youth and adults to gain more productive opportunities through increased marketable skills. This indicator assesses the number or the proportion of existing and newly developed vocational education and training (TVET) programs that reflect the current local labor market’s needs (i.e. their design is in line with the occupational profiles demanded by the market).

A job market-relevant TVET program:

> is based on findings of a labor market analysis

> involves professionals employed in the given profession in the curriculum development process

> is flexible and regularly updated based on feedback from its previous students and tracer studies (i.e. survey tracking down a group of graduated trainees and their employment activities)

The TVET program can be considered relevant to the job market's needs if at least one of the above criteria is met (if feasible, consider requiring more than one criteria). The list is indicative only; you might find different mechanisms and criteria for ensuring that the TVET programs are relevant to the local labor market’s needs.

1) Collect the required data from two main sources:

> review of the course syllabus

> interview with TVET institution management, or in case of nationally accredited curriculum, interview with representative of national skill certification authority

2) Calculate the indicator's value by dividing the number of TVET programs considered as "relevant to the job market's needs" by the total number of assessed programs and multiplying the result by 100.

Disaggregate the data by gender, age, specific vulnerable groups, such as minorities or people with disability.