Sound Vocational Education and Training (VET) policies help address skill gaps. Occupational Standards (OS) are an important tool for developing VET. They help align stakeholders around a common terminology and promote public-private dialogue. This Policy Insights report reviews Kazakhstan’s progress in developing and implementing OS since the recommendations made in the 2015 OECD peer review note. It assesses Kazakhstan’s achievements in improving the institutional setting and capacity for the development of OS. It also looks at work to implement OS in VET curricula, and the initiatives to promote their use. The report makes recommendations to increase institutional expertise concerning OS, and to create more effective implementation and monitoring mechanisms.
Kazakhstan: Monitoring Skills Development through Occupational Standards
