Boosting social mobility through Education and Skills

Oct 22, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 10:40 AM

Description

In Latin America and the Caribbean, disparities in educational outcomes, coupled with the particular characteristics of their economies that do not generate the expected employment opportunities, pose a major obstacle to social mobility. Recent PISA results in the region reveal marked differences in student performance, highlighting both the urgency of educational reforms and the need for such reforms to be aligned with long-term economic policies. Addressing these disparities implies not only equipping young people with the necessary skills to improve their insertion into the labour market, but also ensuring that transformed productive structures are in place to absorb this skilled labour. Likewise, gender disparities with differences in access and outcomes between boys and girls, as well as segregation in career choices, reinforce the need for specific strategies to ensure equal opportunities. Taken together, an approach that integrates educational reforms and structural economic policies will create a more inclusive and effective system, fostering more equitable and just societies.