The Commonwealth of Learning (COL)’s Skills for Work initiative is aimed at closing the skills gap for in-demand and high-demand jobs in Commonwealth Member States.

Skills for Work takes a two-pronged approach:

• Through hybrid models that apply open and distance learning techniques, it helps women, girls, youth, people with disabilities, entrepreneurs, and the unemployed at the community level to acquire relevant 21st Century, life and essential skills, and access in-country mentorship support.

• Through varied partnership models, it enhances ODL capabilities of both TVET institutions and other non-governmental organisations involved in skill development to share and adapt open educational resources; develop capacity in blended teaching/learning practices; scale up outreach efforts; and, respond to the market needs.

SKILLS FOR WORK CERTIFICATION PROGRAMME

Through COL-Skills for Work Initiative, Commonwealth of Learning aims to support the efforts of Member States to provide skills required for decent employment and entrepreneurship and pave the way for attaining skills, enhancing skills, lifelong learning and growth.

Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has partnered with Google, Coursera and Udemy to offer the Skills for Work Initiative to enable youth and adults in Commonwealth nations to access high quality skill development courses provided through the world’s leading e-learning platforms, such as, Coursera and Udemy.

COL will offer three different certification programmes under the Skills for Work Initiative:

• COL-Grow with Google Skills for Work Certification Programme
• COL-Coursera Skills for Work Certification Programme
• COL-Udemy Skills for Work Certification Programme

THREE UNIQUE CERTIFICATION PROGRAMMES

BENEFITS OF COL-SKILLS FOR WORK INITIATIVE