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Michel Cournoyer
Asylum Seekers in Europe – 650 000 in 2017
In 2017, 650 000 first time asylum seekers applied for international protection in the Member States of the European Union (EU). This was just over half the number recorded in 2016, when 1 206 500 first-time asylum applicants were registered, and is comparable to the level recorded in 2014, before the peaks of 2015 and … Continue reading
UK – A guide to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system
This document provides a summary of the UK’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system and how it provides the UK economy with highly skilled people. It contains the following sections: 1. WHY SKILLS ARE IMPORTANT TO THE UK 2. WHAT ARE TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL SKILLS? 3. ABOUT THE UK SKILLS SYSTEM 4. A … Continue reading
US – The skills-based concept is gaining momentum
As the United States struggles with how to match good jobs to the two-thirds of adults who do not have a four-year college degree, his experience shows how a worker’s skills can be emphasized over traditional hiring filters like college degrees, work history and personal references. And elevating skills over pedigree creates new pathways to … Continue reading
Apprenticeships in Norway – Schemes that can improve the chances of completing VET
Many countries with apprenticeship-based systems of VET face a shortage of apprenticeships. Some countries, including Denmark and Norway, address this supply-demand mismatch by offering alternative school-based routes to vocational qualifications for students not able to secure an apprenticeship. Other countries offer no alternative routes, but focus instead on pre-vocational education and training to prepare students … Continue reading
Tips – Where to draw the line when a customer goes too far ?
The balancing act plays out every day in restaurants across America: Servers who rely on tips decide where to draw the line when a customer goes too far. They ignore comments about their bodies, laugh off proposals for dates and deflect behavior that makes them uncomfortable or angry — all in pursuit of the $2 … Continue reading
Skills for the 21st Century – PIAAC is the jewel OECD says
The OECD Survey of Adult Skills is the jewel in the crown of its Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). This paper argues that the findings and policy lessons from the project to date justify the high hopes which were placed in PIAAC when detailed planning for the project began in 2003. … Continue reading
Design Skills in UK – The most important skills across all design occupations
Designing a Future Economy is Design Council’s 2017 report investigating the skills used in design, the link between these skills and productivity and innovation, and how they align with future demand for skills across the wider UK economy. It is a unprecedented study testing a new methodology as well as definitions of design. For the … Continue reading
Job Vacancies in Europe, QIV-2017 – 2.0% up from from 1.7% a year ago
The job vacancy rate in the euro area (EA19) was 2.0% in the fourth quarter of 2017, up from 1.9% recorded in the previous quarter and from 1.7% in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to figures published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the EU28, the job vacancy rate was … Continue reading
Future of Work in Canada – A skills lab cannot be a solely federal initiative
In the aftermath of the economic crisis, few policy issues have attracted as much attention as skills development. Discussion has focused on the types of skills that employees need to ensure they can successfully navigate an ever-more demanding labour market, and those that employers need to have on hand to help them survive in an … Continue reading
The Future of Work – Wages, income inequality, skills and transition
For large shares of the population in the advanced economies, there has really been no positive movement or no sense of progress in terms of where their incomes have gone over the last one to two decades. When we looked at the data across the US as well as a set of European economies, we … Continue reading
L’Emploi au Québec, Février 2018 – L’emploi a peu varié et le chômage s’est établi à 5,6 %
En février, l’emploi a peu varié au Québec. Le taux de chômage s’est établi à 5,6 % au Québec. Comparativement à 12 mois plus tôt, l’emploi a progressé de 74 000 (+1,8 %) au Québec, alors que le taux de chômage a reculé de 0,8 point de pourcentage. Graphique Taux de chômage selon la province, février 2018 Extraits choisis par le Moniteur de l’emploi . … Continue reading
Job Report in Canada, February 2018 – Employment was little changed (+15,000) and unemployment at 5.8%
Employment was little changed in February (+15,000). The unemployment rate declined by 0.1 percentage points to 5.8%. On a year-over-year basis, employment grew by 283,000 or 1.5%. All of this increase was attributable to gains in full-time work (+283,000 or +1.9%), while part-time employment was unchanged. Over the same period, hours worked rose by 3.2%. Employment increased in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, … Continue reading
Work-Based Learning – 20 guiding principles
This document presents 20 guiding principles developed by the ET 2020 Working Group on Vocational Education and Training (WG on VET) in 2014-2015. These principles were developed during a series of meetings, in-depth country focus workshops and webinars. The key purpose of the WG on VET is to respond to the objectives of ET 2020, … Continue reading
Job Report in US, February 2018 – Extraordinarily strong : employment increased by 313,000 and unemployment unchanged at 4.1 percent
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 313,000 in February, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in construction, retail trade, professional and business services,manufacturing, financial activities, and mining. Household Survey Data In February, the unemployment rate was 4.1 percent for the fifth consecutive … Continue reading
Gender Discrimination in US – More common in mostly male workplaces Pew Research Center finds
The gains women have made over the past several decades in labor force participation, wages and access to more lucrative positions have strengthened their position in the American workforce. Even so, there is gender imbalance in the workplace, and women who report that their workplace has more men than women have a very different set … Continue reading
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