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The pandemic changed a lot for many workplaces but some issues remain.
A mismatch between the skills employers want and what young people have is the major cause of youth unemployment in South Africa. Soft skills are key.
Volunteering can help people gain soft skills, improving their labour market prospects.
Instead of focusing solely on what managers do, management and business education needs to provide students with people skills. Here’s how the arts can help.
Research shows that grit is a strong predictor of reading achievement. This suggests that socio-emotional skills are important for student achievement, even in high-poverty contexts.
A lack of consistent mentorship models leads to a skills gap which affects the global competitiveness of Kenya’s students and graduates.
Employment programmes cannot replace economic growth in improving youth employability, but they play a crucial role in helping them find work.
For tutorials to be successful, lecturers must carefully plan what’s being taught.
A report from RBC Royal Bank reaffirms what thought leaders keep insisting – there will be more and more demand for a liberal arts education in our increasingly digital world.
In their relentless pursuit of research commercialization, and bigger robots, universities might miss the real opportunity of technology - to make our world a better place.
In this book extract, Iram Siraj explains how to help kids get a leg up in a digital world by teaching them communication and other essential 21st century skills young.
The cultivation of language experts in post-Brexit Britain is essential if it wants to connect with fresh markets overseas.
Teaching students skills such as creative thinking and problem solving will become part of the curriculum from 2017. But in order to assess these capabilities, teaching styles will have to change.
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