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Non-Permanent Residents (NPR) in Canada – Achieving a reduction with the Comprehensive Ranking System
Canada has in recent years witnessed an unprecedented and unsustainable surge in its non-permanent resident (NPR) population. In response, Minister of Immigration Marc Miller recently announced a target to cut the NPR population to five percent of the overall population in three years. While the government has multiple policy levers at its disposal to achieve … Continue reading
EDI in UK – New report seeks to end ineffective practices
The independent Inclusion at Work Panel has today published a report on the state of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) business practices in the UK. Expert panel sets out how employers can move beyond ineffective diversity and inclusion practices New research finds employers aren’t properly equipped to implement EDI policies that are based on evidence, … Continue reading
Digital Skills Outlook (2024) – The most in-demand across all 15 countries is Microsoft Office, followed by Microsoft Excel and SAP applications
The digital revolution is affecting labour markets in profound ways, both in terms of specialised IT jobs where the constant emergence of new technologies guarantees change, and on a more general level, with most jobs now requiring competence in basic computer software. Research from the US-based National Skills Coalition suggested that 92% of jobs now … Continue reading
Immigration in US – Higher pace of employment growth without adding pressure to wages and price inflation
In this analysis, we consider recent immigration flows and their potential macroeconomic implications. Interpreting the current labor market requires understanding recent immigration: how many people arrived and how they engaged in the economy. Recent estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) suggest much higher rates of recent immigration than were previously projected. In 2019, CBO … Continue reading
Immigration and Housing Canada – Stabilizing it will take some steam out of demand, but the sector’s workforce is aging
Stabilizing immigration will take some steam out of demand The federal government is taking steps to reduce immigration, but the measures will not shrink housing demand. In November, it announced keeping the permanent immigration target in 2026 unchanged from 500,000 in 2025. This will still be up from the 2024 target level of 485,000. In … Continue reading
Teacher in US – Low job satisfaction and few are optimistic about the future
Public K-12 teachers express low job satisfaction and few are optimistic about the future of U.S. education. Public K-12 teachers are stressed about their jobs, and few are optimistic about the future of education. Fully 52% of public K-12 teachers say they would not advise a young person starting out today to become a teacher. … Continue reading
Median Wages in Canada (2022) – $45,380, down 1.6% from 2021 after adjusting for inflation
The Consumer Price Index rose 6.8% on an annual average basis in 2022, the largest increase in 40 years, taking an outsized bite out of real annual wages, salaries and commissions reported by tax filers in that year. In 2022, tax filers reported median wages of $45,380, down 1.6% from 2021 after adjusting for inflation. … Continue reading
US Long-Term Budget Outlook – Projected deficits are especially large given the forecast of low unemployment rates
Each year, the Congressional Budget Office publishes a report presenting its projections of what the federal budget and the economy would look like over the next 30 years if current laws generally remained unchanged. This report is the latest in that series. The federal budget deficit increases significantly in relation to gross domestic product over … Continue reading
Alternative Credentials in Higher Ed in US – Ninety-four percent of respondents’ institutions offer alternative credentials
The goal of this research is to better understand the landscape of alternative credentials, and the programmatic and business models that sustain them. The results of the study show that institutions of higher education have overwhelmingly embraced alternative credentials, with a range of offerings that include non-credit certificates, professional certificates, badges, bootcamps, and MOOCs. This … Continue reading
Aging Societies – They rely on immigrant for health-care workers while the world is short on them
The world is short on health-care workers. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) predicted a global shortfall of 10 million health workers of all types by 2030. In 2020, the global health workforce numbered 65 million, according to the WHO’s National Health Workforce Accounts, yet these workers are no match for the demand. As … Continue reading
Qualifications Frameworks in 2022 – Global inventory of national and regional frameworks
This Global Inventory of National and Regional Qualifications Frameworks is the result of longstanding collaborative work between the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), the European Training Foundation (ETF), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL). Volume I continues the role set … Continue reading
K-12 Teachers in US – A significant decline in key elements of educators’ engagement
While K-12 teaching is, for many in the profession, inherently purposeful, some leaders in education mistakenly believe that the mission-rich nature of educators’ work alone is sufficient to keep K-12 teachers in the classroom. Shifts in America’s K-12 education landscape have led to a significant decline in key elements of educators’ engagement, including knowing what’s … Continue reading
Lifelong Learning – Making it a reality: a handbook by UNESCO
his handbook on lll is an attempt to capture the holistic, all-encom- passing vision of lll and recast it as practical guidance for education stakeholders. rather than providing an exhaustive account of lll in all its forms, the purpose of this publication is to articulate what lll is so that it may be understood, recognized, … Continue reading
Platform Workers – A new Law and Practice report by the ILO
A new Law and Practice report, Realizing Decent Work in the Platform Economy , has been published by the ILO. The report marks a crucial milestone in the process that can lead to a new international labour standard on decent work in the platform economy. It will be discussed at the 2025 and 2026 International … Continue reading
Technology in Developing Economies – New research points to its limitations in promoting development and structural transformation says ILO
While many see technology as a key part of the solution to contemporary development challenges, new research points to its limitations in promoting development and structural transformation. A new publication on the expansion of digital economic activity in developing economies, published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), examines what digitalization means for the structural and … Continue reading
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