Vocational education and training should be strengthened and expanded, through the creation of specialised technical schools and the development of short post-secondary vocational programmes. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. This needs to reflect both fast-changing labour market requirements and the varying needs of students, preparing them as citizens, and opening up a range of career paths. Costa Rica aspires to be a high-income country and realising this ambition will require young Costa Ricans to have higher level skills, as well as basic literacy and numeracy.