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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.
Rates of cardiac arrest are high. So, why don’t more people know CPR?
Lockdown stopped many puppies developing the social skills they need to navigate the human world with confidence.
Better knowledge of the right training strategies is one reason more athletes are continuing to compete longer than they used to.
We hear the term ‘skills shortages’ all the time in media and policy debates. But what skills do we need, and more importantly, how do we get them?
Can the structural barriers to low-skilled employment growth be overcome?
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.
‘Super spikes’ and a springy track can’t take all the credit for lightning-fast sprint times at the Tokyo Olympics
The pandemic has heightened existing weaknesses in South Africa’s skills training regime.
Scicomm is a hashtag, and there are many programs that claim to teach scientists how to be better communicators. But it’s hard to show exactly what they’re accomplishing.
Specialising in one sport early on in childhood carries greater risk of burnout, injury, and dropout from the sport.
One medication-free technique uses your emotions to release stress.
The more businesses encourage their employees to sleep well, the better their employees perform.
For a winning digital transformation, every organization should establish the upskilling and reskilling of their learning and development teams as their critical 2020 New Year’s resolution.
Gym memberships spike as people make their New Year’s resolutions – but very few people will actually use them past February.
As new ways of working have spread throughout the workplace, a culture of lifelong learning is competing with the traditional practice of on-the-job training.
Three federal public policy changes impacting employed and contingent workers could significantly buffer anticipated impacts of automation, Artificial Intelligence and a changing economy.
Amazon’s plan to invest $700 million retraining its workforce signals very soon all jobs will be STEM jobs – and higher education needs to play a bigger role.
There are reasons to be skeptical, of both the quality of the evidence presented so far and the questionable assumptions that underlie claims of improved cognitive function after brain training.
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Professor in Neuromuscular Physiology and Head of Sport Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
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Laurel Mellin, PhD is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Lecturer in Exercise and Environmental Physiology and Exercise Immunology, University of Westminster
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Director, Economics of Education and Child Development, The University of Melbourne
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