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Le CPF en France – Les reconversions professionnelles
Devenue centrale dans le contexte de crise économique, la question des reconversions professionnelles fait actuellement l’objet d’une concertation entre le ministère du Travail et les partenaires sociaux. Fouzi Fethi, responsable du pôle droit et politiques formation de Centre Inffo, passe en revue les pistes à explorer pour faciliter les mobilités. Extraits choisis par le Moniteur … Continue reading
Taxonomie des Compétences – Correspondance de l’O*NET et de la CNP
Cartographie des compétences professionnelles : Mise en correspondance du système étatsunien (O*NET) et canadien (CNP) Rapport de perspectives de l’IMT n° 35Septembre 2020 Principaux constats Comme l’explique le Rapport de perspectives de l’IMT no 31, le système O*NET mis au point par le bureau des statistiques du travail des États-Unis contient l’une des taxonomies… … Continue reading
Planning Your Child’s Education in the Long Term
By Amiee Morse – Planning for your child’s education is one of your most important tasks as a parent. However, it’s also true that education can be extremely costly, which is in itself is a huge barrier to entry for many families. Our previous post on New Pathways to Success highlights that youth all across the world are having … Continue reading
Skills in UK – Nine out of ten employees will need to reskill by 2030 : a strategy
Last month, the CBI welcomed the Prime Minister’s bold steps to help solve the urgent skills challenge facing the UK. But research carried out prior to the pandemic suggests the country is now at a fork in the road. Invest more in adult education to level up opportunity across the country and boost competitiveness. Or … Continue reading
Critical Thinking Skills – A development framework
The development of critical thinking as an essential skill in 21st-century learning is uncontested within educational and professional settings. The degree to which it is operationally defined, taught and assessed, however, is not well documented. This complicates efforts to develop critical thinking in learners, as well as devise intervention techniques and assessment tools. The ACER … Continue reading
The Futures of Work and Education – What it can and can’t do
It is commonly assumed today that education is crucial for meeting the challenges concerning the futures of work. But education cannot make up for inadequacies in other policy domains that have caused and continue to cause declining job quality as well as mass unemployment and under-employment. We suggest that preoccupation with aspirational curriculum reforms like … Continue reading
Apprenticeships in UK – It is the combination of on- and off-the job training elements that contribute to its success
Understanding the potential contribution of time spent undertaking on- and off-the-job training to meet identified learning needs, their relative advantages and the inter-relationship between sector skills and development opportunities is particularly pertinent today due to recent developments in apprenticeships in England – the government’s flagship skills training programme undertaken by over 800,000 employees. policy mandates … Continue reading
Taxonomie des Compétences au Canada – Transposer les données O*NET dans le contexte canadien
La base de données étatsunienne O*NET représente l’un des répertoires publics les plus importants, les plus complets et les plus utilisés au monde pour documenter les caractéristiques détaillées des emplois/travailleurs. Il comprend, entre autres, des mesures de l’importance et de la complexité de 35 compétences dans 968 professions. Afin de tirer parti de l’information de … Continue reading
Skills Recognition of Migrant Workers- Guide for Employment Services Providers
This edition is issued within the framework of the Support to Free Movement of Persons and Migration in West Africa project (FMM), funded by the EU and ECOWAS, and takes on board the efforts made in the ECOWAS subregion to improve labour migration governance and skills portability, in particular skills acquired through non-formal and informal … Continue reading
L’Emploi au Québec (Septembre 2020) – 77 000 (+1,8 %), après avoir augmenté de 630 000 au cours des quatre mois précédents, une solide performance
Au Québec, l’emploi a progressé de 77 000 (+1,8 %), après avoir augmenté de 630 000 au cours des quatre mois précédents. Les services d’enseignement et les services d’hébergement et de restauration ont contribué le plus à l’augmentation enregistrée en septembre. Le taux de chômage a diminué de 1,3 point de pourcentage pour s’établir à 7,4 %, ce qui représente une cinquième baisse mensuelle consécutive, mais … Continue reading
Skills and Workforce Development in Ontario – 3 Promising development practices
In When Training Works: Promising workforce development practices, authors Metcalf Innovation Fellow Danielle Olsen and John MacLaughlin seek to deepen our understanding of how to connect job seekers to good jobs by illuminating the work of innovators – NPower Canada, Building Up, Elevate Plus Manufacturing, and ACCES Employment – who are leading the way in … Continue reading
Compétences au Canada – Une évaluation de celles exigées dans les offres d’emploi grâce aux technologies de pointe
Les progrès en matière de puissance de calcul, de gestion de données et d’apprentissage automatique permettent une collecte et une analyste efficaces et automatisées à grande échelle des données provenant des offres d’emploi en ligne. Les données sur les offres d’emploi en ligne présentent deux avantages importants qui en font un complément précieux aux statistiques … Continue reading
Job Report in US (September 2020) – Employment rose by 661,000 and unemployment declined to 7.9 percent
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 661,000 in September, and the unemployment rate declined to 7.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. These improvements in the labor market reflect the continued resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and efforts to contain it. In September, … Continue reading
Sleep – Losing your job makes you more likely to sleep too little or far too much
Losing your job makes you more likely to sleep too little or far too much. Either is bad for your health ONE OF THE unexpected benefits of lockdown has been some precious extra moments of shut-eye. According to Fitbit, a fitness-tracking firm, American users of its wearable devices got an additional 20 minutes of sleep … Continue reading
Online Learning in UK – Two thirds of the workforce use it to help with work
The Learning Curve, a new report by Demos, supported by Google, finds that 10% of the UK’s economy output can be linked to online learning. Demos polled 20,000 people in the biggest report of its kind looking at online learning habits and their impact on people’s lives in the UK. That research was paired with in … Continue reading
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