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Australia : Enhancing the retention of young people to Year 12, especially through vocational skills
In late 2008, the Australian College of Educators (ACE) commissioned the Work-based Education Research Centre at Victoria University to undertake a research project entitled Enhancing retention of young people to year 12, especially through vocational skills. The broad aim of the project was to examine the factors that contribute to the retention, completion and transition … Continue reading
Skills Gap | UK: Closing the gender skills gap – A reminder 3 years after the report
The report proposes ways to close the gender skills gap. According to the report, this would: increase the gross domestic product (GDP) by between £15 and £23 billion annually reduce the pay and opportunity gap between men and women increase the number of women training and working in science, engineering and technology (SET) alleviate the … Continue reading
New competency : Tomorrow’s journalist according to the BBC’s College of Journalism
For those who mind where things are leading in journalism, the content is : The End of Fortress Journalism by Peter Horrocks Introducing Multimedia to the Newsroom by Zoe Smith Multimedia Reporting in the Field by Guy Pelham Dealing with User-Generated Content: is it Worth it? by Paul Hambleton Video Games: a New Medium for … Continue reading
Skills Gap | IT security : Global Information Security Workforce Study concludes that Professionals not ready for social media threats
Frost & Sullivan has published his (ISC)²® Global Information Security Workforce Study. The electronic survey covered 10,413 respondents over the world. Results depict an information security professional market under increasing pressure. “Frost & Sullivan believes this year’s survey shows a clear gap in skills needed to protect organizations in the near future. The information security … Continue reading
Young, Underemployed and Optimistic – Pew Research Center
A plurality of the American public believe that young adults are having the toughest time of any age group in today’s economy — and a lopsided majority says it’s more difficult for today’s young adults than it was for their parents’ generation to pay for college, find a job, buy a home or save for … Continue reading
Networking the Nation’s Workforce System
While the One-Stop system has performed as best as it could during the recession and recovery, the system and its clients faced several challenges. The appropriate deployment of technology can address many of these challenges. Continue reading
UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN REGIONAL EMPLOYABILITY REVIEW 2011
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY IN THE 14 EU MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERS: FACING THE CHALLENGE OF INTEGRATING YOUNG PEOPLE INTO THE LABOUR MARKET The two key constraints to employment in the Mediterranean partner countries (MPCs) are insufficient labour demand (in particular for qualified labour), i.e., job creation, and skills mismatches due to failures in the education system, … Continue reading
OECD | World | Migration | Brain Drain : A new Report
“Conventional wisdom suggests that international migration of the highly skilled from poor to rich countries — the so-called brain drain phenomenon — threatens development.” writes the OECD in its new report Migration and the Brain Drain Phenomenon. It then adss: “Comparing emigration rates of the highly educated — the share of a country’s nationals with a … Continue reading
OECD | Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising | 10 links
Tax and benefit systems play a major role in reducing market-driven inequality, but have become less effective at redistributing income since the mid-1990s. The main reason lies on the benefits side: benefits levels fell in nearly all OECD countries, eligibility rules were tightened to contain spending on social protection, and transfers to the poorest failed … Continue reading
OECD: Matching skills to new needs is an important challenge for member countries
“It is not just more of the same education that is needed” says the OECD, “the nature of the skills in demand is changing too.” The author adds: “The steepest decline in the demand for skills has recently occurred in routine cognitive task input, involving mental tasks that are well described by deductive or inductive rules… … Continue reading
Breaking New Ground: Building a National Workforce Skills Credentialing System
An ACT (American College Testing up to 1996) report introduces the need and associated benefits for establishing a national workforce credentialing system, as we know of no other set of activities more important than getting a critical mass of state, national, and public and private workforce leaders to co-construct this foundational framework to address … Continue reading
Matching skills to the needs: can sector councils on employment and skills at European level contribute to this objective?
In 2009, the European Commission requested an opinion, to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) on the opportunity to create sector councils on employment and skills at European level in ordre to better match skills to the needs of industry and services undergoing change. The report The EESC supports setting up sector … Continue reading
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