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UK youth employment challenge – A Report
By comparison to other European countries, youth unemployment in UK is just below average at around 22%, but it is rising and has been rising since 2005. This suggests structural causes beyond the current economic situation: The labour market has been changing in ways that impact negatively on young people Recruitment practices make it increasingly … Continue reading
India – Skills Gap – Public Private Partnership : The National Skill Development Corporation
India’s workforce skills development needs are gigantic : 25% of the world’s new workers in the next decade will be Indian… But an unemployed, uneducated or unskilled Indian is not a free Indian—and usually a poor Indian.” writes Manish Sabharwal in Can India’s demographic dividend deliver prosperity? on economictimes.indiatimes.com. (link) “The Indian education sector has grown manifold in terms of diverse range of … Continue reading
US – Stop the vocational education failure
Many American adolescents don’t want to go to college. They reject as boring and aggravating the Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and other college-level courses offered to them in high school. Yet, they need reading, writing, math and time-management skills for good jobs or trade school slots when they graduate. How can they be persuaded to … Continue reading
India: Vocational training lost importance has led to the widening gap between supply and demand for skilled manpower across various industries
Although the field of education has made progress in the past ten years, this less regulated area of the education sector – vocational training— seems to have lost its importance. This has led to the widening gap between the supply and demand for skilled manpower across various industries. This shortage of skills has translated directly … Continue reading
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More Companies Hiring Veterans | fox4kc.com – Kansas City news & weather from WDAF TV – FOX 4 fox4kc.com – NEAR PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A company in Pennsylvania is on a mission to hire Veterans. A construction equipment company called Modern Group wants to hire men and women who have served in the U.S. ar… Inequality … Continue reading
Australia | At least 500 layoffs in TAFEs
At least 500 jobs could be slashed from Victorian TAFEs (JMM: the largest vocational education and training provider in Australia) and there are concerns schools in poorer areas will struggle under measures announced in the state budget. The government will slash spending on four in five vocational courses as part of $100 million in cuts to skills … Continue reading
Survey | Graduates in vocational subjects most likely to find advantage in looking for employment
In a recent survey, Gaby Atfield and Kate Purcell found in Futuretrack Stage 3 Working Paper 4: The fit between graduate labour market supply and demand that graduates who were studying vocational subjects were most likely to believe that the subject they had studied would be an advantage in looking for employment. Sixty per cent of respondents studying subjects allied to … Continue reading
Higher or vocational education? A conversation on TED.com
In the last years the idea that higher education can actually be considered a bubble took shape and is increasingly brought to debate. In more and more countries there are dozens of students graduating and instead of entering the workforce, they go straight to unemployment. With some notable exceptions (like Computing, Medicine etc.) there are … Continue reading
Free Secondary Vocational Education on the radar in Russia
Secondary vocational education will soon be free in Russia, the country’s Education and Science Minister Gennady Shepelev told reporters in Moscow on Monday. He declined to elaborate on the exact date. Shepelev recalled that 27 percent of students of Russian elementary vocation training colleges still pay for the studies. He also admitted that graduates’ job … Continue reading
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Sub-Saharan Africa | A better chance for finding jobs (Video)
Three out of five unemployed in sub-Saharan Africa are young. This video explores the importance of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in giving young people in Africa a better chance for finding jobs. It is published by UNESCO’s Regional Office for Education in Africa, based in Dakar, Senegal (2011).
Blueprint to Transform Career and Technical Education – U.S. Department of Education
Today U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will visit the Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny, Iowa, to release the Obama Administration’s blueprint for transforming Career and Technical Education (CTE), by reauthorizing the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006. Secretary Duncan will hold a town hall to discuss how the … Continue reading
South Africa | For vocational training affordable, good quality vocational training
Last month, a stampede at the University of Johannesburg killed the mother of a potential student, and injured several other people writes Sarah Emily Duff, an NRF postdoctoral research fellow at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Thousands of parents and prospective students had turned up to register – in all, around 85,000 students applied for only 11,000 places. … Continue reading
Sri Lanka | Providing vocational and technical training for 35 percent of youths by 2016
The government is planning to provide vocational and technical training for 35 percent of youths by 2016 under the Mahinda Chinthanaya. Plans are also underway to increase state university intake up to 10 percent. The government also provided vocational and technical training to over 100,000 youths in state institutions in 2011, Sri Lanka Freedom Party … Continue reading
Vocational Education in Sri Lanka
The NVQ system provides a strong basis for quality vocational training but the devil is in its implementation. First, there has to be a hunger and appreciation for quality learning and training rather than certificate collection. That means learning problem solving and practical skills that make one employable. Secondly, a test of employability is critical. … Continue reading
Technical and vocational education (TVE) | The what, the how much, the when & the who
Here are some statements extracted from a World Bank report by Arvil V. Adams entitled The Role of Youth Skills Development in the Transition to Work: A Global Review (2007) on commonly asked questions. A kind of reminder. Does TVE payoff? TVE does payoff under the right conditions. Evidence shows that TVE is more effective when focused … Continue reading
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