According to Riipen—a Vancouver, BC company launched in 2013 that publishes an online marketplace focused on connecting employers to students with demonstrable job-ready skills In the current labor market—“learners lack access to opportunities to gain and demonstrate the skills employers most need and find few opportunities to connect with prospective employers; employers have a hard time defining and signaling their skill needs, and only the largest companies can dedicate resources to strategic workforce development; and education and training providers sometimes struggle to identify and incorporate high-demand skills into their curriculum and pedagogy at time scales relevant to employers.
The Amazon Future Engineer program and Gallup teamed up to conduct a survey, on June 2-20, 2021, of 4,116 students in fifth through 12th grade to uncover their interest in studying computer science. This report covers the results of that survey.
Incremental credentialing is a vital assessment model for higher education to recognize learning, providing more opportunity to students. Is an incremental credential system compatible with accreditation? We recently interviewed Dr. Christy Faison, Senior Vice President for Accreditation Relations at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), to explore these issues in a three-part conversation.
Work Shift dives into the latest research on college ROI, including a study released by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. In short: what students study matters a lot.
Scott Cheney of Credential Engine joins host Van Ton-Quinlivan of Futuro Health to discuss support for employers, educators and learners trying to determine the value of the 1 million credentials available in the U.S.
Maher & Maher is a New Jersey-based human resource consulting and organizational development company that offers specialized training and eLearning solutions for the cable, broadband, wireless, call center and government services sectors.
(Subscription may be required.) Americans with college degrees fully recovered all pandemic job losses by May, while Americans without college degrees remain 4.5 million jobs below pre-pandemic levels. Black women are still the least recovered.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced teachers and parents to quickly adapt to a new educational context: distance learning. Teachers developed online academic material while parents taught the exercises and lessons provided by teachers to their children at home. Considering that the use of digital tools in education has dramatically increased during this crisis, and it is set to continue, there is a pressing need to understand the impact of distance learning.
Northeast Ohio is a medical mecca, and health care is one of the biggest drivers of the local economy. But a recent analysis of federal data shows that some health care credentials don’t have much, if any, long-term economic payoff for individuals.
Workforce Monitor is published with the Program on Skills, Credentials & Workforce Policy at George Washington University. We comb through all the erudite literature on Workforce Development issues, trends, and strategies as they relate to the world of education. We then synthesize our favorite research into concise summaries and feature articles, covering this broad landscape in a way that can save you time.
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