Quelles ont été les compétences les plus recherchés par les entreprises cette année ? LinkedIn a cherché à trouver cette réponse, en analysant les profils des internautes recrutés et leurs particularités. Un Top 25 des compétences a ainsi été établi. 
Après le classement des mots les plus utilisés, LinkedIn s’est penché sur les compétences les plus demandées sur le réseau social professionnel. Pour ce faire, une analyse de plus de 250 millions de profils dans le monde a été réalisée, ce qui a permis de dégager les nouvelles embauches et les compétences liées aux profils concernés. Suite...

By Vikas Jagwani. The number and variety of clubs and activities available at U.S. colleges and universities often surprises international students. But these clubs are a great way to build important skills, like leadership, and understand cultural differences. 
As a prospective student, I didn't consider the clubs on campus to be important to my choice of school, but they've ended up being a large part of my college experience.
The motivation to raise my hand and get involved came my freshman year of college. The opportunity to hold various leadership positions in different organizations has been one of the keys to my success at Drury University. More...

Un portefeuille de 10 compétences "New World" vient d’être dévoilé sur Twitter et Facebook par France Business School, qui entend former des étudiants capables de "maîtriser des compétences-cibles et des valeurs indispensables aux leaders de demain". Suite...

A lively two-day debate at the Cedefop conference on the shift to learning outcomes and its impact (21 and 22 November 2013, Thessaloniki) concluded that learning outcomes are here to stay but there is still a lot of work to be done. Opening the conference, Cedefop Director James Calleja told 140 participants from 27 countries that ‘learning outcomes raise the employability profile of qualifications’. He talked about ‘an issue of paramount importance’ to European vocational education and training (VET) and lifelong learning developments, and added that ‘the challenge for all of us is to converge diverging approaches in writing learning outcomes’. More...

Educational Testing Service (ETS), an American non-profit organisation, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) hosted the PIAAC Invitational Research Conference on 13–15 November 2013 in Washington DC. Some 260 researchers, experts and policymakers from 33 countries participated, including UIL Director Arne Carlsen. 
The first round of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) was conducted by the OECD in 2011–2012 and involved more than 160,000 adults aged between 16–65 in 22 OECD countries and two OECD partner countries. Nine other countries have decided to participate in the second round of the study, the results of which will be published in 2016. More...

Links

• Debate video
• Voting result

Attachments

Read Steve Bainbridge's speech (DOCX  176.08 Kb 04/11/2013)

See the presentation (PPT  2688.50 Kb 04/11/2013)