Adult retraining has become a key condition for labor market sustainability - Ministry of Economy
Kyiv • UNN
The Ministry of Economy is implementing lifelong learning to overcome the personnel shortage. Employers are switching to flexible modular formats for specialist training.
In Ukraine, retraining and advanced training for adults can no longer be considered an additional opportunity. In the context of a full-scale war, structural changes in the economy, personnel shortages, and the transformation of employer needs, this becomes a necessary condition for the stability of the labor market, employment support, and human capital development. This is reported by UNN with reference to the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine.
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The study points to several important things:
- Firstly, a network of institutions and providers capable of providing retraining and advanced training for adults has already been formed in Ukraine. However, the crucial question is how much this system is connected to the real needs of the economy and whether it provides people with the skills that employers actually need;
- Secondly, the market is already forming a demand for short, flexible, modular, and practice-oriented learning formats. For an adult who is changing professions, returning to employment, or needs to update skills, these formats are often the most realistic and effective;
- Thirdly, employers are increasingly taking on the training function themselves, because personnel shortages, migration, mobilization, and population displacement force businesses to invest in training people on the job.
The Employment Strategy until 2030 envisages a transition to a demand-oriented model of personnel training, in which the education and vocational training system must be consistent with the current and projected demand of employers. Lifelong learning, including retraining and advanced training for adults, in this model is not an auxiliary element, but one of the basic tools of employment policy.