Vocational education and training is facing some big changes. The federal government is proposing a five-year National Skills Agreement with the states to start next year.
Corruption and fraud make a few rich households richer. But the already poor and low-skilled lose their jobs and become poorer.
Young people wait to register at a South African university in 2012. They are bearing the brunt of high levels of unemployment.
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Youth unemployment in Nigeria is a skills mismatch problem – corporations can’t find suitable workers in the midst of a large pool of unemployed workers.
Demand for professional development has grown but the pandemic has forced it online. Decades of evidence from online education tells us how to ensure professional development remains effective.
Graduates in the science, engineering and technology fields enjoy an advantage in the labour market.
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Freelancers who have lost work during the COVID-19 crisis can take steps to ensure they have a successful long-term career in the post-pandemic period.
Dollarama worker Ze Carole Benedict, originally from Cameroon, addresses a demonstration in Montréal in August 2020 to join in calls for higher pay and better working conditions amid COVID-19.
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Education should equip people not just with specific skills, but also with the knowledge they need to be citizens, and for occupations in which they can develop across the course of their lives.
We’re entering the fourth industrial revolution, which isn’t a bad thing. But it does mean we need to take action.
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In April 2019, the government-commissioned Joyce review made 71 recommendations to reform the VET sector. Here’s what the report said, and what the government is doing about it.
Group project experience doesn’t automatically translate to competence at collaboration.
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From the biggest ‘wicked’ problems on down, finding solutions to challenges depends on working together collaboratively. Students think they’re good at this, but they aren’t. Here’s what could help.