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ENGLAND
policies SDGs digital transformation post-COVID
• In 2020, new T Level • Inequalities are • The digital platform The • The Skills Toolkit was
qualifications with 315h addressed through a Skills Toolkit offers free launched in response to
of industry WBL Lifetime Skills Guarantee training to people who the COVID pandemic to
• In 2022, reformed lack essential digital skills give people access to
that offers adults a level 3
Higher Technical qualification (2021) needed for life and work. free, high-quality digital
Qualifications (levels 4 • From 2025, a Lifelong • In 2020, the courses to help build
and 5) will start Loan Entitlement aims to Government entitled skills, progress in work
• 12 new institutes of make education more adults who need essential and boost career
technology created and 8 digital skills for work to prospects. It has since
inclusive by allowing
to launch access digital skills expanded to include 62
• Apprenticeships were adults and young people qualifications for free additional courses.
to study more flexibly
reformed with higher • Nationwide recruitment • The Skills for Jobs white • The new £2.5 billion
quality standards paper proposes the National Skills Fund’s aim
• Skills for Jobs white campaign for individuals introduction of more is to help get people
to teach in VET,
paper (2021) gives module based, flexible working again post-
employers a central role investment in high-quality digital learning COVID, as well as giving
professional development
in designing technical • The reform of Higher those in work the chance
courses and creation of a Technical Qualifications to train for higher-skilled,
• A Development Fund to workforce industry will include the option to better-paid jobs. It
help colleges establish exchange programme. take a digital route includes the rollout of
business centres digital skills bootcamps

SPAIN
policies SDGs digital transformation post-COVID
• In 2019, the Plan for the • Agenda for the • The Spanish government • Establishment of
Modernisation of digitisation of the agri- is developing a Strategy regulatory mechanisms to
Vocational Training was food and forestry sector for Digitalisation in VET regulate vocational
created, highlighting: and the rural • The connectivity plan for training through virtual
- the accreditation of environment (SDG1, VET schools is being means.
competences SDG4, SDG8) implemented • Creation of aid
- 200,000 places in VET • Strategic Plan for Equal • The development of programmes to support
provision by 2023 Opportunities (PEIO) for digital competences of disadvantaged young
- a single, flexible, and women and men in teachers and learners is people, especially those
accessible VET system employment (SDG1, promoted without access to
- new titles on Artificial SDG5, SDG8). • A vocational module on computers at home and
Intelligence, Big Data, and • Just Transition Strategy, digitisation will be without the option of
Cybersecurity to optimise employment incorporated into all VET studying online.
- entrepreneurship opportunities, with degrees soon • Greater access to
classrooms in 1850 VET special attention to • The “Educa en Digital” vocational training for the
centres strategic sectors, and programme boosts the unemployed is facilitated.
• In 2021, the new VET Act reactivation plans for technological change of
to consolidate the VET disadvantaged areas education in Spain
system started to be draft (SDG4, SDG8, SDG13)

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