These can be minimized by properly assessing future needs. The relationship between technology and educatbn in the context of the labour market has been depbted as a "race between educatbn and technology", in which “if workers have flexible skills and if the educational infrastructure expands sufficiently, then the supply of skills will increase as demand increases for them" (Goldin and Katz, 2007:26). The rapid pace of technological progress and increasing instability in the labour markets thus requires education policies to react with agility, while education and training systems may require significant transformations. Many countries are witnessing skills shortages in the field of digital technologies and many employers report difficulties in filling high-skill vacancies.