Driving positive change THROUGH
skills
The City & Guilds Centre
for Skills Development (CSD) is an independent, not for profit,
research and development organisation. We work with researchers, practitioners, policy
makers, employers and learners
to improve the policy and practice of vocational education and
training world-wide.

CSD has launched
its second international research project, Training for Rural
Development: Agricultural and Enterprise Skills for Women
Smallholders. Click here to view project
micro-site.
A partnership between private sector companies and local Government in India’s northeastern state of Assam is to set up ten new industrial training institutes.
70% of Malaysia’s education system will focus on vocational education and 30% on academic, under plans currently being developed by the Malaysian Education Ministry.
New briefing note examines the benefits and risk of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) - whereby skills and knowledge gained by individuals outside formal learning processes are assessed and granted formal recognition.