ASSESSING THE DEMAND FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WITH THE HELP OF FUTURE SKILLS ARCHITECT
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Author(s): | Martel Vasquez E. V., |
| Number of journal: | 4(69) | Date: | November 2024 |
| Annotation: | Many areas of the economy are faced with the problem of rapid obsolescence of professional skills, which was especially evident during the pandemic. Increasing degrees of digitalization, the need to work remotely and the pace of automation have exacerbated the challenges of developing workforce skills. There is a shortage of people with new work skills (in conditions of automation and digitalization), both rapidly developing types of activities (mass markets, online sales) and traditional ones, but in new realities. Educational organizations offer programs aimed at the current needs of the market, economy and society, while it is necessary now to develop programs that will be in demand by employers in 4—5 years. The rapid obsolescence of knowledge and information reinforces this need. In these conditions, educational organizations are looking for a methodology for determining future needs in order to create competitive educational programs and courses in order to form the so-called skills of the future skills that have not yet been formed and will be formed on the basis of current skills and competences. This means that it is necessary to predict the composition and areas of those skills and competences now, based on current trends in the economy, production, and services. The skills mismatch takes a heavy toll on the global economy through lost profits for organizations and lost taxes for governments. Skills mismatches also cause declines in productivity and innovation, and slow economic development. One tool for assessing future skills is a tool developed by Boston Consulting Group called the Future Skills Architect (FSA). The Future Skills Architect is based on an assessment of promising and in-demand skills in the near future, taking into account structural changes in the economy and society. In the article, the author makes an attempt to assess the composition of this tool and the possibilities of its use in assessing the skills and competences formed as a result of educational programs. | ||
| Keywords: | educational programs, skills of the future, competences of the future, labor market assessment, human-centricity in education, Future Skills Architect / FSA, FSA index, elements of the FSA index, obsolescence of professional knowledge |
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| For citation: | Martel Vasquez E. V. Assessing the demand for educational programs with the help of Future Skills Architect. Biznes. Obrazovanie. Pravo = Business. Education. Law. 2024;4(69):31—36. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2024.69.1104. |
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