By Paul Fain. The U.S. Department of Education and regional accreditors are closer to being on the same page about competency-based education. Read more...
4 juillet 2015
1 juillet 2015
Définition de la notion "blocs de compétence"
Le Copanef a adopté le document élaboré par le comité observatoires et certifications proposant une définition du « bloc de compétences » que les partenaires sociaux entendent porter dans les différentes instances où se réalisent en ce moment le « découpage » des certifications professionnelles en « blocs de compétences ».
Voir le document :
http://www.fpspp.org/portail/resource/filecenter/document/042-000024-014/definition-blocs-de-competences-bureau-9juin2015.docx. Voir l'article...
28 juin 2015
Skilled workers 'may vanish' if further education budget cuts continue
By Richard Adams. Labour market expert Professor Alison Wolf says cuts to FE colleges and growth of universities could see UK lose valuable source of technicians and mechanics. More...
25 juin 2015
What computer skills can do for you
By Andreas Schleicher. Our new OECD report, Adults, Computers and Problem Solving: What’s the Problem? provides first-of-its-kind answers to such questions. Based on results from the 2012 Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), the report demonstrates the impact of the ability to use digital devices to solve problems in everyday life and at work on the likelihood of participating in the labour force and on workers’ wages. Read more...
25 juin 2015
Young people are our future: invest in their skills
By Andreas Schleicher. The OECD Skills Outlook 2015: Youth, Skills and Employability, launched today, asserts that this unacceptable waste of human potential stems partly from the fact that too many young people leave education without having acquired the right skills (according to the 2013 Survey of Adult Skills, 10% of new graduates have poor literacy skills and 14% have poor numeracy skills); and that not enough young people have experience in the world of work (less than 50% of students in vocational education and training programmes, and less than 40% of students in academic programmes in the 22 OECD countries and regions covered by the Survey of Adult Skills participate in any kind of work-based learning). Read more...
24 juin 2015
What skills do employers want most?
By Margaret Andrews. I teach courses and executive programmes in leadership and management and, as part of my introduction to the class, I explain to participants why what they are there to learn is vitally important: these skills are among the most important keys to lifelong career success. Read more...
16 juin 2015
Les partenaires sociaux définissent la notion de blocs de compétences
Parmi les formations qui peuvent être inscrites sur les listes paritaires de certifications éligibles au CPF, figurent, selon les termes de la loi, « les formations sanctionnées par une certification enregistrée dans le RNCP ou permettant d'obtenir une partie identifiée de certification professionnelle, classée au sein du répertoire, visant à l'acquisition d'un bloc de compétences ».
Lire la définition élaborée par le comité observatoires et certifications et adoptée par le Copanef. Voir l'article...
14 juin 2015
Accreditors Back Joint Approach to Competency-Based Education
A group representing the seven regional accrediting agencies has developed a common framework for assessing and approving competency-based education programs proposed by their member institutions. The Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions, known as C-RAC, released the framework for the emergent form of higher education program late Monday. Read more...
14 juin 2015
Skills heterogeneity among graduate workers: real and apparent overeducation in the Spanish labor market
This paper relaxes the assumption of homogeneous skills among graduate workers and proposes a new approach to differentiate between real and apparent overeducation based on the level of cognitive skills actually achieved by the individuals. This proposal is applied to the study of the wage effects of overeducation in the Spanish labor market using data from PIAAC. The results suggest that between a quarter and a half of the graduate workers who appear to be overeducated in the Spanish labor market could be considered as being only apparently overeducated since they show a lower level of skills than that corresponding to their educational level or, alternatively, a level of cognitive skills which is commensurate with their job. Different returns are found for each group of overeducated individuals both when compared with adequately educated peers within a similar level of education (with greater wage penalties for apparently overeducated workers) and when the comparison is done with well-matched co-workers doing a similar job (with a wage premium for real overeducation but no significant returns for apparently overeducated workers). These results point to the need of taking account of skills heterogeneity within an educational level when returns to overeducation are analyzed. More...
14 juin 2015
OECD survey highlights skills problem among young Britons
By Richard Adams. Low-skilled young people locked out of the labour market as they face barriers due to a lack of employable skills. More...
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