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Raquel Fernández

Raquel Fernández

Raquel Fernández-Coto is a specialist within the Inter-American Development Bank’s Education Division in Guatemala, where she leads the country’s education sector’s portfolio with special interest and experience in secondary and post-secondary education, technical education, and skills for work. Moreover, she leads diverse regional initiatives and in other countries like Colombia. Before her post in Guatemala, she was education specialist for the IDB in Honduras and was part of the Labor Markets and Social Security Division at IDB headquarters in Washington D.C., where she worked on projects in the Caribbean and Central America. She also worked at the World Bank in infrastructure, logistics, and agriculture projects within the Economics Unit in the Sustainable Development Department for Latin America and the Caribbean and in Costa Rica’s Competitiveness Promotion Council, as Director of Programs and Projects. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Chicago and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it: ensuring quality education and training to ride the digital wave (Part 2)

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In part 1 of this blog we discussed how automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other technologies are transforming the workplace and shifting the demand for skills around the world. In part 2 we will zone in on the Caribbean situation and look at how countries in the region are responding to the global demand for a new type of labor. Jamaica leading the … [Read more...] about If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it: ensuring quality education and training to ride the digital wave (Part 2)

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it: ensuring quality education and training to ride the digital wave (Part 1)

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The adoption of automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other technologies is transforming the workplace and shifting the demand for skills. According to a recently released briefing from McKinsey, basic and advanced technological skills, higher cognitive skills, and social and emotional skills are on the rise. While these trends are happening more slowly in … [Read more...] about If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it: ensuring quality education and training to ride the digital wave (Part 1)