OECD Skills Outlook 2023
Skills for a Resilient Green and Digital Transition
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Skills are vital for building resilient economies and societies. By helping individuals develop a diverse range of skills and empowering them to apply these skills effectively, skills policies play a crucial role in responding to emerging threats, such as environmental degradation and harmful applications of technologies used to collect, generate, and exchange information. This edition of the Skills Outlook highlights the importance of supporting individuals in acquiring a wide range of skills, at varying levels of proficiency, to promote economic and social resilience. Additionally, the report acknowledges the role of attitudes and dispositions in enabling skills development and effective skills use. It also emphasises the need for policy makers to monitor the costs associated with policies aimed at promoting the green and digital transition, and how the transition affects inequalities. Training opportunities that respond to emerging labour market needs and efforts to facilitate their uptake can promote a just and inclusive green and digital transition. In turn, education systems that equip young people not only with skills but attitudes to manage change can ensure that the green and digital transition is sustainable in the longer term.
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Skills and attitudes for new information landscapes
This chapter considers the extent to which adults and young people in OECD countries reach baseline levels of proficiency across key information-processing skills – namely text comprehension, numeracy and scientific literacy – to be able to validate complex information sources. The chapter also suggests that alongside proficiency in information-processing skills, the complex digital information landscapes of the 21st century require that individuals have high levels of metacognitive skills. These include an awareness of their own ability and the level of difficulty of the information challenges they face; a willingness to recognise their lack of familiarity with the information they are exposed to; and a solid understanding of the scientific process as a way to gather evidence. Equipping people with solid cognitive and metacognitive skills is critical to solving the “trust challenge” of modern information landscapes.
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