World Youth Skills Day: Four Things To Know About Skill Training

World Youth Skills Day is celebrated on July 15 every year. The United Nations declared World Youth Skills Day on July 15 in 2014. Since then, the special day is celebrated every year on the same date. The day was declared to create awareness for the youths about the importance of having the required skill sets for the job at hand. 

Here are four things to know about Skill Training as it pertains to the youths.

Women worst hit in out-of-job circle

In the whole world, one in five persons is Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET) and three out of four young NEETs are women.

Between 1997 and 2017, the young population grew by 139 million and the population of the youth labour force shrank by 58.7 million.

Low pay package for young workers

Almost 2 out of 5 young workers in emerging and developing economies live on less than US$3.10 a day. The rise in cost of living has made the amount too merger to take care of their needs.

Adverse effect of Covid-19 still prevalent

 Before the last crisis, young people were 3 times as likely as adults (25 years and older) to be unemployed. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic of more than three years ago, about 1 in 6 young people are out of work. The figure of job youths is more in Nigeria.

Improvement in practical development

For more than 100 years, blending distance learning with practical skills development has proved effective in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). For instance, Australia in 1910, introduced its first distance TVET courses to train health inspectors by correspondence while they worked.

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