This program, which could become a model for other community colleges to emulate, comes at a time when child care has become an increasingly tough financial and time-management challenge, exacerbated by the pandemic, for parents who work during the day and need new options to balance work, family, and school as they try to advance in their careers.
Women are less than 15% of the cybersecurity workforce, but data indicate Coastline College professor Tobi West is making progress attracting underrepresented groups of students – female, non-whitle, low-income – to the Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) certificate and degree program she created with an Advanced Technological Education grant from the National Science Foundation.
In this report, Harvard Business School looks at “hidden workers,” middle-skill workers that are unable to find gainful employment due to a lack of hiring and training opportunities. There are 27 million hidden workers in the US. They are a diverse population that includes “caregivers, veterans, immigrants and refugees, those with mental and physical disabilities, and relocating partners and spouses.”
This report offers a new approach to better understand the contours of mobility: Who is falling behind, where, and by how much. Using data on hundreds of thousands of real workers’ occupational transitions, we use network analysis to create a multidimensional map of the labor market, revealing a landscape riddled with mobility gaps and barriers.
Modern technology has dramatically changed hiring and the way the country tracks labor market demand. But how much does data really tell us about today’s in-demand jobs?
Colleges are reporting unprecedented interest from recruiters, as employers struggle to find enough qualified candidates to fill jobs. Here’s the view from Ohio.
Half of U.S. workers describe their firms as understaffed, and they are likely to have considered quitting as the labor shortage feeds employee attrition.
NCEE had the opportunity to speak with Scott Cheney, CEO of Credential Engine, a non-profit organization that is building an online credential registry to compile and describe the nearly one million credentials currently available in the U.S.
The goal for higher education is to continuously improve, and one of many elements of that goal is to provide the most up-to-date and relevant educational experiences within the enormous arena of WFD.
One of the most prevalent impediments to the sustainability of a skilled biotech workforce is a lack of career awareness. Students need to know there are plenty of biotechnology career opportunities attainable via two-year degree programs. Unfortunately, students’ awareness of biology careers rarely extends past role models such as doctors and nurses.
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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