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.
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?
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.
‘Super spikes’ and a springy track can’t take all the credit for lightning-fast sprint times at the Tokyo Olympics
A worker cut fabric panels from a material stack at a textile factory in Cape Town. Young South Africans aren’t being given the skills they need.
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The pandemic has heightened existing weaknesses in South Africa’s skills training regime.
How can more scientists learn to communicate like Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases?
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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.
It’s thought that having a child specialise in a sport early will help them achieve elite levels of success.
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The more businesses encourage their employees to sleep well, the better their employees perform.
It’s critical that learning and development teams are upskilled and reskilled themselves to help organizations successfully engage in a digital transformation.
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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.
Gyms start to empty as more and more people give up their New Year’s resolutions.
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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.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks with construction workers who stopped to listen to his speech in Essex, Ont., Sept. 20, 2019.
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Three federal public policy changes impacting employed and contingent workers could significantly buffer anticipated impacts of automation, Artificial Intelligence and a changing economy.
Amazon plans to retrain 100,000 employees in new technologies.
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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.
You might just be getting better at the game you’re practicing.
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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.