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Michel Cournoyer
Generating More and Higher-Quality Jobs – The case of Greece
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force activity and has stalled new hiring. The improved social protection … Continue reading
Perceptions of Lifelong Learning in Europe – Results of more than 40 000 interviews
Impressions are influential. Through more than 40 000 interviews of people aged 25 and over in the European Union, Norway and Iceland, this survey explores people’s impressions about adult learning and continuing vocational education and training (CVET), which are central to enabling adults acquire the knowledge, skills and competences they need to manage changing jobs … Continue reading
Covid, Virtual Instruction and Course Completion – A 6.7 percentage point decrease driven by increases in both course withdrawal and failure in Virginia Community Colleges
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an abrupt shift from in-person to virtual instruction in Spring 2020. Using a difference-in-differences framework that leverages within-course variation on whether students started their Spring 2020 courses in person or online, we estimate the impact of this shift on the academic performance of Virginia’s community college students. We find that … Continue reading
Covid and Long-Term Unemployment in UK – Eight design intervention principles
Long-term unemployment could hit 1.6 million in 2021-22 – a 600% increase and the highest since 1994. These are our estimates, based on Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) scenarios for total unemployment. People become long-term unemployed when they have been out of work for 12 months and it scars individuals, families, and communities for years … Continue reading
Deskless (Frontline) Workers – Training makes them feel connected and secure in their jobs, survey finds
A new TalentCards report examines the state of training for deskless workers, a group that makes up a staggering 80% of the global workforce, and has proven essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. Surveyed amid the pandemic, frontline and deskless employees (such as nurses, teachers, salespeople, construction workers, truck drivers, etc.) stated that they wouldn’t switch … Continue reading
Labour Market Information (LMI) – Guiding educational and occupational choices
Governments recognise that careers guidance, underpinned by accurate labour market information, can help learners make post-secondary education choices that match their interests, aptitudes and abilities, and lead to rewarding employment. For this reason, they have invested in building linked education/employment information systems and other information resources which are displayed on websites targeted to learners and … Continue reading
Key Employability Indicators for National Qualification Agencies – A toolkit
This toolkit demonstrates the utilisation of Key Employability Indicators (KEIs) through which Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) as well as National Quality Assurance Agencies (NQAAs) will be able to monitor employability as a quality concept in higher education. … Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story @ Toolkit for Key Employability Indicators for National Qualification … Continue reading
Human Capital as an Asset – Seven guiding principles to shift how human capital is valued
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Willis Towers Watson, has published a new white paper, Human Capital as an Asset: An Accounting Framework for to Reset the Value of Talent in the New World of Work, to provide organizations with a model to reshape human capital accounting. The framework will enable a company to … Continue reading
Covid – Graduate recruitment volumes are down everywhere
Covid-19 is having a profound and damaging impact on the global economy. Many countries are reporting dramatic rises in levels of unemployment. There is concern that these changes are having a disproportionate impact on young people. This report explores how these economic changes are impacting on graduate recruitment in 21 countries. Findings are based on … Continue reading
Teacher Shortage in US – A crisis made worse by COVID
Some estimates have put the shortage of teachers relative to the number of new vacancies in classrooms across the country that go unfilled at more than 100,000—a crisis exacerbated by the pandemic. But policy changes can go a long way in addressing this shortfall. We lay out those policy solutions in our just-released paper, A… … Continue reading
Getting Britain Back to Work – The employment and skills response
Unemployment spiked sharply as a result of the coronavirus crisis and associated social distancing restrictions. During March and April 2020 around 2.5 million individuals made claims for Universal Credit, with claims running at seven times usual levels at the peak. The number of vacancies in the economy has fallen by three fifths, and it is … Continue reading
Prior Learning Assessment – Associated with better student outcomes including higher credential completion, cost savings, and time savings
Postsecondary institutions that have focused on adult learners have developed a number of strategies and programs to help put learning and credentials within reach. One important strategy is ensuring that adults are not wasting time and money by taking courses in subjects that they have already learned. Adult students, whether just starting college or returning … Continue reading
Short-duration Credentials After Graduation in Canada – Made employement in “low value-added service industries” fell from 22.1% to 9.9%
This study uses longitudinal data combining information from the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) with data from personal income tax (T1 Family File) to analyze the impact of short-duration credentials (certificates and diplomas from colleges and universities), completed after an undergraduate degree, on the outcomes on the labour market of graduates from Canadian public universities. … Continue reading
Employer Skills Survey in UK – Key findings across the ESS series (2015 – 2019)
The UK economy has seen sustained economic growth after emerging from the recession of the late 2000s, and this has continued since the last wave of Employer Skills Survey (ESS) in 2017. ONS data shows that at the second quarter of 2019, when ESS 2019 fieldwork began, job creation was at its highest level since … Continue reading
WEF’s Future of Jobs Report 2020 – 94% of business leaders report that they expect employees to pick up new skills on the job, a sharp uptake from 65% in 2018
After years of growing income inequality, concerns about technology-driven displacement of jobs, and rising societal discord globally, the combined health and economic shocks of 2020 have put economies into freefall, disrupted labour markets and fully revealed the inadequacies of our social contracts. We find ourselves at a defining moment: the decisions and choices we make … Continue reading
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