A Skills beyond School Review of Peru

Vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. How can employers and unions be engaged? How can work-based learning be used? How can teachers and trainers be effectively prepared? How should postsecondary programmes be structured? This country report is part of a series that looks at these and other questions. This report for Peru recognises that VET is crucial to developing a highly-skilled labour force. Peru is shown to have an extensive array of VET programmes, with over 2000 mostly private VET providers, and steadily increasing enrolments. While Peruvians have demonstrated a keen interest in developing their skills, and some VET programmes provide very high-quality VET, this report offers evidence that existing programmes and institutions are falling short of meeting the country's needs. A combination of well-crafted public policies and strategic investments can help better steer VET institutions toward high-quality offerings, facilitate student transitions along education and career pathways, empower students, and broaden access to groups that are currently unable to participate because of financial or other constraints.