Cedefop co-organises a training and knowledge-sharing course on skills needs anticipation and matching with the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITC-ILO), the Skills Development and Employability Unit of the ILO and the European Training Foundation (ETF). The course will take place in Turin (Italy) between 20 and 24 October and the deadline for applications is 15 September.
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By . In what was designed to target low-income students with limited job and education prospects back in the late 1980s, a skills pipeline program is gaining momentum as more of today’s students realize the benefit of ‘middle skills,’ or those that require less than a traditional four-year degree but more than a high school diploma, and pay well per hour right after graduation. More...
By Meris Stansbury - . With the recent signing of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the popularity of jobs training programs across the country, and the recent surge in the offerings of digital badges, competency-based education (CBE) is becoming a must for any higher education institution looking to serve a broader pool of 21st-century students. More...
By John F. Ebersole. "Competency-based” education appears to be this year’s answer to America’s higher education challenges, judging from this week's news in Washington. Unlike MOOCs (last year’s solution), there is, refreshingly, greater emphasis on the validation of learning. Yet, all may not be as represented. Read more...
By Paul Fain. The U.S. Department of Education will give its blessing -- and grant federal aid eligibility -- to colleges' experimentation with competency-based education and prior learning assessment. On Tuesday the department announced a new round of its “experimental sites” initiative, which waives certain rules for federal aid programs so institutions can test new approaches without losing their aid eligibility. Read more...
Par Nicolas Bondu. Comment une entreprise peut-elle se développer si ses collaborateurs emportent avec eux des compétences-clés s’interroge Jean-Marie Marx directeur général de l’Apec dans son édito sur Apec RH. Ces quelques mots mettent en évidence un dossier majeur pour les entreprises. Les départs en retraite, le turn-over, les départs imprévisibles de salariés possédant des capacités professionnelles capitales, les bouleversements liés à la compétition mondiale, ont précipité la nécessité d'enraciner le transfert des compétences dans les pratiques quotidiennes des entreprises. Suite de l'article...
A new report urges Ottawa to work with the provinces and industry to put a stop to what it calls an alarming slide in the quality of Canada’s education and skills training.
The Canadian Council of Chief Executives-commissioned paper is being released ahead of this week’s meeting of Canada’s provincial education and labour ministers and industry representatives in Charlottetown. More...
By Justine Hunter. Within the next two years, the B.C. work force will undergo an invisible shift, when the pool of younger workers becomes smaller than the number of aging workers who have their eye on retirement. If the labour analysts are correct, 2016 is the point when the real trouble starts. There are regions of the province where recruitment and retention is a challenge now – but just wait until the retirement-aged segment of the work force outnumbers new entrants. More...
The relevance of education and skills for economic and social progress cannot be overstated. In a globalized knowledge-based economy, skills are a major driver of labor productivity and of an economy’s ability to sustain its competitiveness and escape development traps. Building the right sets of skills has emerged as a major determining factor for people and economies to participate meaningfully in the global economy. In a way, as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has put it, “skills have become the global currency of the 21st century.” More...
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