eprintid: 10196732 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/67/32 datestamp: 2024-09-24 13:51:54 lastmod: 2024-09-24 13:57:50 status_changed: 2024-09-24 13:51:54 type: report metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Spours, Ken creators_name: Grainger, Paul title: The roles and relationships of vocational and higher education in supporting economic recovery and the just transition ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J80 note: This publication has been being published under the Creative Commons License CC BY-ND 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/. abstract: This policy brief considers the interconnected themes of economic recovery and the Just Transition (JT) - achieving net-zero emissions through greater social justice, linked to Presidency Priority 2 – Economic stability and transformation: setting the course for economic recovery, financial stability and for a sustainable, social and just global economic system. This sits within the strategic purpose of the G7 to promote democracy and pluralism. There are several related challenges in achieving Net Zero as we seek to ‘build back better’ following the COVID era. These include the conceptual challenge of understanding the relationship between different types of crises; reducing class gaps that have been exacerbated by the pandemic and making ecological sustainability a possibility for low-income groups and vulnerable populations that are most impacted by the climate emergency. The Policy Brief starts by describing the multi-layered crisis and locating the JT in relation to other sustainability initiatives and concepts. The JT is then conceptualised through a multi-level social ecosystem model that embraces different levels of society from the micro- to the macro-, with a particular emphasis on the middle scalars (meso and exo) that embrace communities, organisations, and local/regional economies and governance. These are underpinned by local democracy. The Brief explores different dimensions of the JT, with specific reference to technical and vocational education, including higher education (TVET) and the role of TVET institutions in relationship to local and regional JT systems. Proposals include recommendations that TVET institutions collaborate, in a pluralistic way, with each other, with wider civil society partners and climate campaigners to generate the skills in support of a comprehensive Just Transition Action Plan. date: 2022-02-05 date_type: published publisher: Global Solutions Initiative Foundation official_url: https://think7.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Cohesion_The-Roles-and-Relationships-of-Vocational-and-Higher-Education-in-Supporting-Economic-Recovery-and-the-Just-Transition_Ken-Spours_Paul-Grainger.pdf oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green commissioning_body: Think 7 Taskforce for Strengthening Social Cohesion verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2310668 confidential: false lyricists_name: Spours, Kenneth lyricists_id: KSPOU42 actors_name: Spours, Kenneth actors_id: KSPOU42 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public place_of_pub: Berlin, Germany pagerange: 2-14 pages: 15 citation: Spours, Ken; Grainger, Paul; (2022) The roles and relationships of vocational and higher education in supporting economic recovery and the just transition. Global Solutions Initiative Foundation: Berlin, Germany. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196732/1/Roles-and-Relationships-of-Vocational-and-Higher-Education-in-Supporting-Economic-Recovery-and-the-Just-Transition_Ken-Spours_Paul-Grainger.pdf