1 February 2021 [ILO News] – Vocational training and apprenticeship programmes have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to a global survey of more than 1,350 providers of Technical Vocational Educational Training (TVET), many countries and training providers were insufficiently prepared to respond to the constraints that resulted from the crisis, although some rapidly shifted to distance learning.

A majority of survey respondents reported disruptions to training, in particular to work-based learning due to enterprise closures, as well as the cancellation of assessment and certification exams.

However, since the start of the crisis, innovations in teaching and learning have begun to emerge, says the report, Skills development in the time of COVID-19: Taking stock of the initial responses in technical and vocational education and training .