By Graeme Paton. The rise of digital technology is having a major impact on pupils' handwriting skills, with teachers unable to read exam scripts and emoticons creeping into students' work, research finds. 
Blog Educpros de Bruno Dufour. Talent supply chain:
For a long period, talents were seen as an abundant, available resource. It may be time now, like sustainability movement did, to revisit this position and define new approaches.
Summary: Segmentation, tensions and silos organisations within HR do not allow to design the best supply chain to provide and manage talents over time.
Corporate Universities, different from training centres, have a specific role to play as well as career development, succession planning and mobility. New learning technologies can provide flexibility and quality levelling of functional knowledge as well as understanding of most common procedural tools to upgrade talents on common issues. Suite...
Par Laetitia. Dire oui à la compétence
La compétence c'est quoi ?
La compétence c'est le fait de savoir agir dans une situation professionnelle donnée. Lorsque vous vous retrouvez dans une situation, vous mobilisez un certain nombre de savoirs que vous combinez de telle sorte à trouver une solution. Votre capacité à faire face à cette situation démontre votre compétence. Tout le monde n'a pas les mêmes savoirs et ne réagit donc pas de la même façon dans une même situation, cela ne veut pas dire pour autant que vous n'êtes pas compétent.
La compétence, comment on l'acquiert ?
On définit souvent la compétence comme un apprentissage informel où :
By Carol Goar. Thanks to a handful of tenacious sleuths, the great Canadian skill shortage has been exposed as a myth.
It took nine months of detective work by economists, journalists, social media sleuths and investigators at the Parliamentary Budget Office to solve the mystery of Canada’s missing job vacancies. Last week Auditor General Mike Ferguson made it official: The federal government was using unreliable statistics to support its claim that Canada had plenty of jobs but no workers with the skills to fill them. More...
By Liz Koblyk. Working with extremely competent, intelligent clients has shown me that, no matter how competent and intelligent a person is, it takes a real leap of faith for them to imagine themselves in a career path other than the one they’re currently in. We hear about the importance of storytelling – from marketing, to job seeking, conflict resolution, user experience and who knows what else. The value in storytelling lies in the fact that we all tell stories already to make sense of our lives. For all that, it’s easier for us to imagine some stories than others. More...
Cedefop is transforming the EU Skills Panorama website into a central access point for information and intelligence on skill needs in occupations and sectors across Europe. And we need your help.
Our aim is for the EU Skills Panorama to become a comprehensive, dynamic, interactive and user-friendly website that provides new data and information on European skill trends, as well as links to other European and national information sources.
Your views count. You can help us improve the website by spending around five minutes to complete the EU Skills Panorama Users Survey
Take a look at the current EU Skills Panorama website at: euskillspanorama.cedefop.europa.eu
The European Commission has published a new report called “E-Skills for Jobs in Europe: Measuring progress and moving ahead.”
The report showed that Europe is expected to have about 700 000 unfilled new ICT-related jobs by 2015.
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Informal, conversational and problem-focused, every Learning and Skills Group Conference gives us the chance to come together and consider how far we have progressed since the Learning Technologies event in January, and to help each other in achieving the year’s goals. Read more...
By . Entrepreneurship seen as a skill every student in every field needs for the future. Foluke Tuakli hopped on a bicycle and weaved around her classroom at the University of Maryland, College Park, acting out the problems that cyclists encounter on the road. “I’m turning, I’m turning,” she shrieked as the bike wobbled. More...
Ethniki Conference Centre, Syngrou Avenue 103 - 105, 117 45 Athens - GreeceThis event is under the auspices of the Hellenic Presidency of the Council of the EU and is organised by SEPE (www.sepe.gr) and DIGITALEUROPE (www.digitaleurope.org). It is the first of the two major European events in the context of the e-Skills for Jobs 2014 campaign.
The aim of the "e-Skills for Jobs 2014 Grand Event: Mobilising to Support Job Creation and Upskilling of the Workforce" is to foster dialogue among key stakeholders and demonstrate the opportunities that the ICT industry offers to support the creation of jobs and growth in Europe.
The conference will contribute to enhance the political participation of EU officials and high profile national authorities in order to mainstream e-Skills issue in EU policies and to set up thematic networks in the framework of Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs perspective. The conference will also serve as a major stepping stone in raising awareness towards ICT professionals, young people and the unemployed that new skills will be needed for the jobs of tomorrow.
For the event’s agenda, click here
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