By Oliver Tomlin - EvoLLLution. Being a leader in today’s higher education climate is challenging. Declining budgets and skyrocketing expectations from students, staff, senior leadership and employers require leaders to be innovative, entrepreneurial risk-takers in a largely risk-averse environment. Today, leaders are expected to add one more skill to their arsenal: fundraising. More...
By , and . A recent report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) claimed that the UK is one of the very few EU countries which saw larger growth in low-skill jobs than in high-skill ones between 1996 and 2008. All this at a time when the share of graduates in the economy increased dramatically. More...
A Valence, le groupement d’employeurs de travailleurs handicapés (GETH) a ouvert une nouvelle entité. Le GETH vise à réussir une insertion pérenne en emploi et à mutualiser les compétences des travailleurs handicapés. Voir l'article...
A l’occasion des journées nationales contre l’illettrisme, du 8 au 13 septembre, Unifaf, partenaire de l’ANLCI depuis 2008, dresse un bilan positif de son action nationale sur les compétences clés liées au socle de Branche. Voir l'article...
By Sally Johnstone - Evolllution. Competency-based education, once a peripheral and little-known pathway to a postsecondary credential, burst onto the higher education scene a few years ago and has not disappeared. Leaving claims of “flash-in-the-pan” in the dirt, colleges and universities across the United States have been aggressively launching competency-based programs of their own. More...
By . Recently, I did a fascinating set of roundtable discussions with employers and employer associations, and it brought home to me how one-dimensional much of our talk is regarding skills.
Broadly speaking, there are four sets of skills employers care about. The first are job- or occupation-related skills: can a mechanic actually fix a car? Can an architect design buildings? And so on. More...
By Paul Fain. Roughly 600 colleges are in the design phase for a new competency-based education program, are actively creating one or already have a program in place. That’s up from an estimated 52 institutions last year. Read more...
The study of student engagement has become mainstream in higher education research. In the last two decades there has been a sharp increase in the number of student surveys inspired by the idea that the more students are engaged in learning activities and participate in ‘effective’ or ‘high-impact’ educational practices, the greater their learning gains. But despite growing empirical evidence that there is a positive correlation between the level of student engagement and learning outcomes, we still know very little about wider implications of having more engaged students on campus. Are these students more successful in their careers? Do they make better citizens? More...
By Martha Crago. The kind of skills that doctoral students will need for their careers is a topic that has been garnering considerable attention of late. With new data suggesting that only 20 percent of Canada’s PhD graduates will find tenure-track jobs in academia (forthcoming from the Conference Board of Canada), this issue is worthy of considerable attention by graduate students, professors and university administrators. More...
Retrouvez le communiqué de presse concernant la présence d'Epale France à la rencontre européenne du 10 septembre à Lyon. A cette occasion l’agence Erasmus+ Education Formation présentera sur son stand deux de ces dispositifs Européens AEFA et EPALE ainsi que son projet collaboratif mené en association avec l’ANLCI et le FPSPP : un programme d’autoformation en e-learning dédié aux acteurs incontournables de l’orientation pour détecter les situations d’illettrisme. Voir l'article...
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