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Integrating AI in TVET: a practical guide for institutions
Integrating AI in TVET is a UNESCO-UNEVOC guide for institutions that train technicians, tradespeople and other skilled workers, developed with the UNEVOC Network and international TVET experts and published open access in 2026. It is a normative document: principles, a phased institutional path and working instruments, not a report on what AI does to vocational learning.
What you can do with it
Three annexes carry the usable material. Annex A is an AI readiness self-reflection tool for a small cross-functional team: seven dimensions running from leadership and governance through data readiness, curriculum, partnerships and funding, each scored on four maturity levels from not yet started to established, ending with a few feasible first steps. Annex B is an illustrative AI risk register. Annex C is an indicator framework in seven domains mirroring the institutional chapters, each with sub-themes, key indicators and candidate data sources such as policy version history, tracer surveys and staff surveys. The teaching chapter adds a ladder for how far AI enters a task: AI-aware learning, where learners examine how AI is reshaping a trade without using it; AI- supported, where AI plans or prepares while the learner performs the task; and AI-enhanced, where it supports work in progress. Chapter 5.5 aligns staff and learner AI competency with UNESCO's own frameworks for teachers and students.
Who it is for
Leaders of TVET institutions deciding what to do first, teachers and trainers who need a defensible line between where AI helps and where unaided practice stays essential, and qualification staff revising occupational standards. The recommendations chapter is sorted by audience, so each can begin in its own section.
Notes and caveats
It is guidance, not evaluation. The guide reports no outcome data, and its institutional examples, a content-integrated AI learning model at the College of the North Atlantic in Canada and Kenya's 2023 TVET industrial attachment standard, are descriptive case boxes sourced to project reports, not independent trials. The annexes call themselves indicative; the maturity scale is a discussion aid, not a measurement instrument. Safety-critical and regulated occupations get a chapter, but it argues a position on human oversight rather than offering regulation-level detail. The CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO license permits adaptation and republication with attribution and share-alike.