Encouraging Relevant Adult Learning: Skill-Based Certification System

Occupation-based qualifications risk becoming outdated rapidly as occupations requiring new skills emerge. Hence, skills-based accreditation may better suit employers’ needs. Providers could develop programs that cover the practical skills and DELTAs required to perform a certain occupation, but add new components or remove old ones as those occupations evolved.

Several AI start-ups have developed algorithms capable of identifying and updating the skill sets required for different occupations.

Governments could adapt these to enable a dynamic, skill-based certification system.