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Adults increasingly need to develop new skill sets in response to rapid labour market changes driven by the digital and green transitions. The Higher Education Policy Team is supporting OECD member and partner countries in enhancing access to flexible, high-quality upskilling and reskilling opportunities, particularly at advanced levels. A key focus has been on the development of micro-credentials, analysing their role in higher education and examining policy instruments to ensure they can be accessible, high-quality, and responsive to labour market needs. Currently, the team is assisting countries in creating harmonised micro-credential systems that bridge higher education, vocational education and training, and non-formal learning sectors, fostering a cohesive approach to lifelong learning.

OECD member and partner countries face the challenge of mobilising resources to invest in higher education and directing these resources effectively to allow higher education systems to meet the needs of society. The OECD’s Resourcing Higher Education Project?analyses and shares evidence?about policies for?funding higher education?providers, organising?financial aid for students, promoting rewarding?academic careers?and?developing networks?of higher education institutions. The project tackles these issues through?comparative reports, country-specific analyses?and advisory projects,?targeted thematic policy briefs?and?regular peer-learning?activities.

To enable insightful analysis, the Higher Education Policy Team is working?to improve the evidence base?for its?comparative international and country-specific work. The Team implements regular fixed-response surveys focused on specific aspects of higher education policy in member states, using its Higher Education Policy Survey instrument. The 2022 version of the Higher Education Policy Survey (HEPS) focuses on the topics of Digitalisation, Upskilling and Reskilling.? The Team has also developed a pilot Analytical Database of Higher Education Providers (ADHEP) bringing together data at the level of individual higher education institutions to permit more fine-grained comparative analysis of higher education systems.

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Digitalisation has transformed the way learning and teaching take place in higher education. If wisely adopted and supported, digital technologies have enormous?potential to widen access?to educational opportunities and expand individualised, flexible, and innovative models of learning. Through?international peer learning, comparative and country-specific policy analysis, the Higher Education Policy Team supports OECD higher education systems to adapt their policies to the specific demands of digital education and the training and support needs of students and instructors.