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Vocational education
Canada’s New ‘Census’ / Young backing away from skilled trades
Canada is facing a looming shortage in handy skilled trades workers — including mechanics, welders and construction staff — as the number of qualified older workers approaching retirement outnumbers younger ones, according to new data from Statistics Canada Continue reading
Vocational graduates enjoy a faster transition to work and are more likely to have a permanent first job finds research
Vocational graduates enjoy a faster transition to work, are more likely to have a permanent first job, and are less likely to find a first job with a qualification mismatch Continue reading
Apprenticeship / Leads to substantially lower unemployment rates research finds
How to best prepare non-college bound youth for the labor market? asks Matthias Parey in Vocational Schooling versus Apprenticeship Training — Evidence from Vacancy Data on cep.lse.ac.uk (Adapted chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor to follow). Different approaches compete in this field, including firm-based apprenticeships, full-time vocational schooling, and on-the-job learning. Little is known about how effective these … Continue reading
Thailand / Number of vocational students needs to be increased by 50%
The Ministry of Education is looking to boost the capacity of teachers at vocational schools in order to allow the yielding of quality vocational students to feed the labor market. According to Deputy Education Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana, the number of vocational students needs to be increased by 50% from the present due to the overwhelming … Continue reading
Vocational Education / SkillsUSA WorldTeam to International Competition of Young Skilled Workers
SkillsUSA, the organization that represents the United States in the WorldSkills Competition, is sending 20 career and technical education students to Leipzig, Germany, to compete in 19 skill categories during the 42nd biennial international event July 2-7, 2013. This is the largest U.S. team ever assembled. The U.S. first entered international competition in 1975. The … Continue reading
Philippines / Gov’t urged to adopt German dual vocational system
Vice President Jejomar Binay has called on the government to look into Germany’s dual vocational system and see how it could help reduce unemployment in the Philippines. The German dual vocational system combines apprenticeships in a company and vocational education at a vocational school. The in-firm training lasts from two to three and a half … Continue reading
US / Job Creation Best in Five Years finds Gallup
Gallup’s U.S. Job Creation Index increased to 22 in May, the highest score for any month since April 2008. The Job Creation Index is now much improved from the all-time monthly low of -5 recorded in February and April 2009. The net job creation score is based on 37% of workers telling Gallup that their … Continue reading
China / BN Vocational School
Established in 2005, BN Vocational School (BNVS) is China’s first tuition-free, non-profit charitable vocational school at the senior secondary level. It is also the targeted school subsidized by the Project Hope of the China Youth Development Foundation and the Project Hope’s Vocational Education Fund. The guiding principle of BNVS is to provide employment oriented training … Continue reading
Austria / Apprenticeship Program faces with a deficit of new apprentices
Austria is facing a 17-year decline in the number of 15-year-olds that began in 2007 and won’t turn upward until 2024, according to government data. Faced with a deficit of new apprentices, the country’s labor ministry last month allowed asylum-seekers under age 25 to enter trade apprenticeships. In addition, a growing number of apprentices begin … Continue reading
Spain and Germany sign an agreement to provide vocational training
Germany signed up on Tuesday to provide vocational training and jobs for young Spaniards starved of opportunities in their crisis-hit home country, ministers said. “Each year nearly 5,000 young Spaniards will be able to benefit from vocational opportunities or even from stable and skilled jobs in Germany,” Spain’s Employment Minister Fatima Banez said after signing … Continue reading
Thailand and Germany / A treaty on vocational education development
The cabinet has approved a cooperation treaty on vocational education development between Thailand and Germany aimed at bringing excellence to the Thai education. Mr. Tosaporn Sererak, spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office announced the outcomes of the cabinet meeting, saying the ministerial council has approved a treaty in which the Ministry of Education of Thailand … Continue reading
Compare attitude on Youth Unemployment and the Apprenticeship Gap
Kudos to David Leonhardt for calling attention to the staggeringly high American youth unemployment rate — 26.6 percent — compared to rates in Europe and Japan. I just want to add that in addition to overall sluggish job creation, one of the problems is that American employers tend to avoid job training and seek workers who … Continue reading
Australia / Is it wise to insist that everyone complete year 12?
A significant number of young Australians can’t stand school and many people are ill suited to a university education. So is it wise to insist that everyone complete year 12? Should we be encouraging ever more young people to get an uni degree? Do we need a complete overhaul of vocational education and apprenticeships? Paul … Continue reading
UK / Vocational and Technical Education / ‘Tech Bacc’ aims to boost status
Plans to raise the status of vocational courses in sixth forms and colleges in England have been announced. A “technical baccalaureate” is to be introduced showing young people’s abilities in maths, literacy and a high level vocational qualification. This will be a performance measure for schools and evidence of credible skills for students to show … Continue reading
Nigeria / Poor Public Perception Hurts Vocational Education Minister
Efforts by the federal government to revitalise Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) in Nigeria is moving at a slow pace because of poor public perception. Minister of Education Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i stated this at the launch of the 2012 Education For All Global Monitoring Report with the theme ‘Youth and Skills: Putting Education … Continue reading
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