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Investing in machinery and education is critical. Investing in Canadians' essential skills for living, learning and working is just as important but much less understood 
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The aim of this paper is to present a brief historical reconstruction of the pedagogical and educational political discussion about education for the industrial sector in America. Unlike in Germany, a dual model of vocational education and training characterised by an interlocking of school-based instruction and workplace training has not managed to establish itself as a discrete educational sector in America. Currently, education for industry is provided mainly in schools and tends to be oriented towards the criteria of efficiency and vocationalism.
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Documents of the Third International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, 13-16 May 2012.
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Current approaches employed by organizations in the industrial manufacturing sector are not enough to
Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
The Canadian manufacturing sector has taken a hit in the past few years - especially Ontario - but there are pockets of stronger hiring activity and the most pressing issue is how employers are failing to address the generation gap between Millennials and generation X workers.
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The review makes recommendations around raising awareness of the benefits of apprenticeships, empowering SMEs to get the best from their training providers, and simplifying ownership and responsibility for the apprenticeships programme and removing barriers.
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Canada’s level of productivity has slipped among OECD nations, from third in 1960, to 11th in 1990 and to 17th in 2010. One of the key reasons for this declining productivity is the often-noted and omnipresent skills shortage. It’s not that we don’t have skilled workers; it’s that we don’t have the workers with the right blend of skills required in the 21st-century labour market of a globally connected economy.
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Ask any entrepreneur about the biggest challenges facing his business, and they’ll likely say it’s hiring good people. Seasoned executives and sales people are always scarce, but the shortage of traditional skilled trades — cooks, electricians, mechanics and carpenters — is a national problem that shows no sign of easing.
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This report contains a critical review of the literature on field studies of vocational education and training (VET) related issues for learners with special educational needs, covering two priority areas: (1) the key factors that facilitate VET for learners with special education needs; and (2) the relationship with the labour market and key challenges.
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With half of India's population under 25, the country must not only educate millions but also prepare them for a global work force, said attendees at a meeting in Delhi.
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Even as India struggles to educate its burgeoning population, it faces a second pressing challenge: better preparing its college graduates for a competitive global work force.
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The move towards evidence-based policy and practice is problematic in multiple ways. It is based on a simplistic view of how straightforward evidence is and ignores a wide range of valid research approaches. In the case of vocational education and training (VET), there is neither definitional clarity nor data that would permit confidence in such an approach. Moreover, there is clear evidence that such approaches are routinely forgotten about when there is political or financial interest in promoting a particular policy position.
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A recent report highlighted evidence of a growing mismatch in the Canadian job market. Many people remain without jobs, even as many employers complain that they cannot fill available job vacancies.
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The report sets out the reforms needed to focus training on job outcomes, transform skills investment, renew Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Queensland and strengthen trade skill pathways in order to revamp and modernise Queensland's vocational education and training sector.
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The skills issue remains the main priority in 2013.
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Learning in vocational schools and workplaces are the two main components of vocational education. Students have to develop professional competences by building meaningful relations between knowledge, skills and attitudes. There are, however, some major concerns about the combination of learning in these two learning environments, since vocational schools are primarily based on the rationales of learning and theory, while workplaces are based on the rationales of working and practice. This study therefore aims to structure empirical insights into students’ learning processes during the combination of school-based learning and workplace learning in vocational education.
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skills.oecd is an OECD web portal that presents all the most recent OECD reports, data and videos related to skills.
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The rapid development of technology means employee training is more critical than ever to ensure that employees have the right technology skills to keep businesses operating at peak performance. If employees are behind the times when it comes to technology, a business risks losing its competitive edge. And while technology is developing more rapidly, it also is becoming more complex. Organizations are investing in complex, enterprise-wide software platforms, such as SharePoint, but often do not receive the expected return on investment (ROI) due, in part, to a lack of employee training.
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Called ‘task shifting’, this strategy involves re-delegating professional tasks to nonprofessional cadres according to a skills-based toolkit.
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Globally, 75 million youth between 15 and 24 years of age are unemployed. What are governments doing to alleviate the situation?
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The problem of youth unemployment is a ticking time bomb scenario, making one wonder if being young is really an advantage and whether such a large group of disgruntled youth will hold the key to the future of nations.
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Canadian businesses face current and future challenges finding enough qualified workers to meet their needs. The Aboriginal population of Canada—including Métis, Inuit, and First Nation—as an underutilized source of labour, can help businesses fill skills and labour gaps.
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Globalization has a significant impact on the field of human resource development (HRD), especially on international HRD. The challenge of developing global workforce with intercultural competencies has received extensive attention. It is necessary to reexamine the structure and content of IHRD programs that facilitate individual to be interculturally competent. This paper attempts to propose an integrative intercultural effectiveness (ICE) model as the guidelines for IHRD to identify the process and content in developing intercultural competencies.
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The TVET Reform Project will strengthen economic development by ensuring that technical and vocational education and training in Bangladesh is of a consistently high quality, accessible to students, internationally recognized and relevant to the needs of industry. By introducing new approaches such as competency-based training and assessment, structured apprenticeships and recognition of priorearning, quality vocational training will create pathways to decent work for all.
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The guide gives interested stakeholders information on how training and skills development can be pursued in the context of an SME (Small to medium-sized enterprises;). The guide details some of the key challenges SMEs face and information on how to deal with them and find innovate solutions. It also provides various examples from across Europe that stakeholders can benefit from.
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The study aimed to analyze the factors that have an impact on graduate employability, and to identify policies and strategies that have been put in place by universities to prepare and train their graduates to meet the demands of the workplace. The study also attempted to highlight the plight of graduates with degrees in information and communication technologies (ICT). Given the prevalence of technology in all aspects of our lives and the rapid development in the field, the capacity of universities to adapt and update their programmes and curriculum accordingly is of particular concern.
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This study examines the labor market outcomes of graduates from training institutes run by Punjab Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA), the largest technical and vocational education and training provider in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. The study uses an SMS-based survey - a promising and inexpensive method to assess the impact of education and training in developing countries.
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Congress held in Shanghai, China, May 13~16, 2012.
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Work-force shortage is already here, especially in Western Canada. There are three components to the problem of labour shortages. The first two – an aging and shrinking work force, and a knowledge-skills shortage – have been well documented. But the third is a shortage of the essential skills required in any job.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/mind-the-gap-no-people-skills-no-job/article2356864/