Skills

Reverse Brain Drain – IT – India / US: Over half of Indian IT professionals returning

“Early April, Corp-Corp conducted a survey among Indian IT professionals. More than 1000 professionals responded to this survey. The results show more than half of the Indian IT professionals are planning to return to India.” writes corp-corp.com on its Blog. Survey Highlights (adapted excerpts) 50.1% of the people said that they will be returning to … Continue reading →

ManpowerGroup’s Talent Shortage Survey : Talent is becoming the key competitive differentiator

“ManpowerGroup surveyed nearly 40,000 employers across 39 countries and territories during the first quarter of 2011 to gauge the impact of talent shortages on the global labor market. The results of the sixth annual Talent Shortage Survey reveal a modest upward trend in the percentage of employers having difficulty filling positions due to lack of … Continue reading →

Skills Gap – Middle-skill Workers – New England: The Boston Fed calls for Ensuring an Adequate Supply

“The supply of middle-skill workers will be constrained in the future” write Julia Dennett and Alicia Sasser Modestino in The Middle-Skills Gap: Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Skilled Labor in Northern and Southern New England, published by New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on bostonfed.org.  Choosen excerpts by JMM  … Continue reading →

UK – Vocational Education – Skills Gap: Economic Recovery Depends on Balance Between Academic and Vocational Ed

“Big companies believe the UK’s economic recovery may depend on improving the balance between academic and vocational education” writes James Taylor in We need more investment in practical skills, say employers on managementtoday.co.uk. “87% of the large firms questioned by education services provider Pearson said the UK economic recovery was at risk without more investment … Continue reading →

Skills Gap: Global Mobilization of People or Talent War (video)?

India – Literacy : TARA Akshar+, the fastest literacy programs in the world

“An India-focused adult literacy program has been short-listed for an international humanitarian prize for having taught nearly 60,000 women to read and write in 35 days, making it one of the fastest literacy programs in the world.” reports Margherita Stancati in India Literacy Program May Be World’s Fastest on blogs.wsj.com. And,“Although men can enroll, too, … Continue reading →

Europe – Medical Skills – Doctors to lose their jobs if they fail yearly test | Metro.co.uk

Doctors who fall below standard could lose their licence to practise in ‘the biggest change to medical regulation in 150 years’. They will be assessed every year to see if they are fit to stay on the medical register, under a scheme set to start in December. The General Medical Council said it would be … Continue reading →

Partnership – OECD: Getting the young into jobs (video)

Job Gap – Youth Unemploment: An Interview with ILO Economist Sara Elder (video)

An Interview with ILO Economist Sara Elder

Skills Gap in the US Economy (video)

Youth Unemployment – UK – Are vocational qualifications a better option than university ?

“In this economic climate, with such high rates of graduate unemployment, should school leavers give far greater consideration to vocational qualifications?” asks Jane Scott Paul in Are vocational qualifications a better option than university? on guardian.co.uk. “Sadly though, youth unemployment is hardly limited to unqualified school leavers: it now extends to many of Britain’s brightest … Continue reading →

US Competitiveness – STEM – Change the Equation

“… The U.S. will be short as many as 3 million high-skills workers by 2018, according to a Georgetown University report issued last year. Two thirds of those jobs will require at least some post-secondary education, says Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce.” “So dire are the predictions about … Continue reading →

World Bank – Brain Drain: Some myths and common concerns not founded

  “High-skilled emigration is an emotive issue that in popular discourse is often referred to as brain drain, conjuring images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions of brain gain, diaspora effects, and other advantages of migration have been used to argue against this, but much of the discussion has been absent of evidence.” write John Gibson and … Continue reading →

Integrating Skill Acquisition Into Day-to-Day

Economies around the world are chal­lenged with a chron­ic lack of skilled employ­ees. Despite high unem­ploy­ment lev­els, many com­pa­nies strug­gle to find peo­ple who have the tech­ni­cal qual­i­fi­ca­tions and expe­ri­ences need­ed to fill crit­i­cal roles … http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2012/09/13/embedded-learning-integrating-skill-acquisition-into-day-to-day-activities/

Talent War – From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation

Representatives from higher education institutions in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia met last week in Seeon, Germany, at the Sixth Annual Strategic Leaders Global Summit, an event co-hosted by Germany’s Technische Universitat Munchenthe and the Council of Graduate Schools, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C. The meeting’s theme was “From Brain Drain to … Continue reading →