This paper considers the inclusion of TVET and skills in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and analyses the integrated approach likely to impact TVET and skill systems. It argues that despite SDG implementation and monitoring challenges, the new emphasis on TVET, skills and lifelong learning will reinforce efforts of international, bilateral, and multilateral organizations. It concludes that the SDG targets relevant to TVET and skills development reflect existing priorities and normative principles adopted by development actors and mirrors the recent resurgence of interest in TVET and skills development more widely. In considering the various key drivers likely to influence the development of labour markets and TVET systems from now until 2030, the paper concludes that, while many of the emerging issues may have not been explicitly considered during the formulation of the SDGs, they too will have a potentially positive effect on SDG implementation.
