Yesterday, November 21, 2022, at the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth (YPAN), the signing of the Agreement between the YPAN (Directorate of Higher Education), as the Contracting Authority, and the contractor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Cyprus, for the conduct of a major research project entitled "Development of a National Graduate Tracking Mechanism and Design and Implementation of an Employers' Skills Survey". The project is part of the proposal of the Ministry of National Economy under the Recovery and Resilience Plan ("Addressing Skills Mismatch between Education and the Labour Market", C5.1R1). The selection of the contractor was made through an open procedure with a call for tender in the eProcurement system.
This project aims to create, for the first time in Cyprus, a National Higher Education Graduates' Monitoring Mechanism and at the same time to design and conduct a Pancyprian Employers' Skill Survey in relation to the needs of the labour market in terms of skills and qualifications. Therefore, for the first time at national level, an attempt is being made to develop a mechanism for the systematic collection of data on the professional and social development of graduates of various Higher Education Programmes of Study and to investigate the needs of the labour market in terms of knowledge, skills and qualifications over time.
The use of data from the National Graduate Monitoring Mechanism and the Employer Survey is expected to contribute to the design of appropriate policies and informed decisions by both the state and higher education institutions to reduce the mismatches between the supply and demand of skills and qualifications. In particular, the results of this project will serve as a tool for reformulating the curricula of higher education institutions and for designing and offering up-skilling or re-skilling programmes. At the same time, they will be a tool for the reformulation of Secondary General and Secondary Technical and Vocational Education and Training curricula, as well as for the improvement of the vocational guidance system in Secondary Education.
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