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UK | The Trouble With Apprenticeship – Do You Remember The Wolf Report ?
Apprenticeships face ‘identity crisis’, according to Forum of Private Business writes HR Magazine The Forum of Private Business yesterday warned a group of MPs that apprenticeships are facing an ‘identity crisis’, with business owners in certain sectors concerned that shorter schemes do not provide the same value as longer courses. The Forum’s senior policy adviser Alex … Continue reading
Job Gap | Skill Gap | Matching the Jobless With 3.4 Million Jobs – NYTimes.com
EVER since the deep recession hit four years ago, many colleges have been rethinking their continuing education programs, straining to figure out how best to help the many unemployed Americans who have looked to them as a lifeline. With the unemployment rate still stubbornly high, this rethinking has led to a powerful trend in which … Continue reading
Digital Literacy | Cisco International Education Survey: World Education Leaders See Increasing Role for Technology to Transform Learning
“More than three-quarters of top education officials around the world believe technology can play a major role in how students learn and how teachers educate, according to a global survey commissioned by Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and conducted by Clarus Research Group, a Washington, D.C.-based research firm. Telephone interviews were conducted with 500 education administrators and … Continue reading
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 | Massachusetts : no current worker gap but a persistent skills mismatch or skills gap for selected occupations
There is no worker gap in Massachusetts currently: there are a large number of people available to work (those unemployed, underemployed or in the labor force reserve), but a persistent skills mismatch or skills gap for selected occupations a report says. Full Report @ :
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
Workforce development : sharing with industry on the curriculum, including assessment, is essential
Jenny Shaw, Amelia Routand and Jan Wise tell us that sharing with industry on the curriculum, including assessment, “which is often seen as the preserve of academics”, is essential to meet the challenges of workforce development. Industry involvement for the “genuine professional development of students” sets “a gradual, piecemeal evolution in the design and delivery … 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
India | Coming soon, UGC degree in vocational education – Hindustan Times
A bachelor’s degree in vocational education is likely to be introduced in the University Grants Commission affiliated institutions in 2012. The standing committee of UGC which met here two days ago has formally approved a proposal to introduce a bachelors degree in vocational education. This is to get a final nod from the commission. … Continue reading
How will Washington meet its growing need for STEM degrees? | HeraldNet.com – Opinion
A top Boeing official recently shared this sobering statistic: that 50 percent of Boeing’s engineers will be eligible to retire by 2015. Similar and equally frightening statistics pertain to the growing need for engineers in the energy industry, the transportation systems sector, and the civil infrastructure arena. Another projection shows that by 2018 the state … Continue reading
A New Push For Vocational Education in Chicago and the U.S. – The 312 – February 2012 – Chicago
Yesterday the city announced a $479 million capital plan to support the city colleges’ “College to Careers” program, which, in part, would rebuild and expand Malcolm X College, “including a new Allied Health Academy that will strengthen ties to the Illinois Medical District.” As Deanna Isaacs of the Reader noted in its wake: According to … Continue reading
India | Now, a college degree in vocational education – Times Of India
For years, India’s basic collegiate education had been segregated into three distinct academic islands: the masses pursued humanities, the ones with shining score cards took to the sciences and the rest who wanted to pick up the tools of trade, opted for commerce. Now students can venture into a fourth dimension: a bachelor’s in vocation … Continue reading
US | Census | More than 30 percent of U.S. adults 25 and older had at least a bachelor’s degree
In March 2011, for the first time ever, more than 30 percent of U.S. adults 25 and older had at least a bachelor’s degree, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. As recently as 1998, fewer than one-quarter of people this age had this level of education. From 2001 to 2011, the number of Hispanics with … Continue reading
Long Beach Post: LBUSD Approves Layoff of Over 300 Employees
With more than $200 million cut since 2008 and counting, the closure of two schools, and more than 800 layoffs last year, the Board for the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) unanimously passed a motion approving the layoff of over 308 employees in order to brace for the millions the district will lose following … Continue reading
Toronto tech jobs in high demand but geek factor, knowledge gap keep candidates away – thestar.com
Jobs in information technology and engineering in Toronto are in high demand but too few recent graduates are available to fill them, a year-long study shows. For every seven jobs in information technology and engineering there is only one qualified candidate to fill them, a study by the Toronto Region Research Alliance found. These trends … Continue reading
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