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Training, employment, occupations and employability in turbulent timesInternational Conference, Toulouse Business School | Toulouse, 18 &#38; 19 septembre 2014There is universal policy consensus on the need to build workforce skills to support economic development and cope with evolving labour market needs in a period of profound and sustained restructuring. This political consensus involves international agencies such as the OECD, ILO, IMF and World Bank, supra-national regional bodies such as the EU and APEC and governments of nation states. All stress the importance of forecasting future skills needs to ensure that education and training systems are suitably adapted and to avoid skills gaps, shortages and mismatches.It is also widely recognised that occupations are evolving as sectors undergo a profound restructuring, with some disappearing and new occupations emerging, demanding opportunities for continuous acquisition of new competences. Some competences are susceptible to transfer between occupations particularly in the case of skills shortages (for example, nurses taking on new tasks formerly reserved for doctors in the face of increasing shortages of doctors). (...)Lire la suite : http://www.tbs-education.fr/en/research-faculty/international-conference-skills-futureDeadline: 30 April 2014