CVA / English Web Watch
Each month, the Canadian Vocational Association presents a survey of relevant links and documents on various specializations and topics related to the field. Please don't hesitate to send your comments and suggestions to info@cva-acfp.org.
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CANADA. Employers' Coalition for Advanced Skills: Pre-budget Consultations Submission The Employers Coalition for Advanced Skills urges a concerted effort to bolster the capacity of Canada's colleges and institutes to provide the advanced skills employers need as they face the mounting challenges of demographic attrition and the need to enhance productivity. (Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC)) |
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EU. Adults in Formal Education: Policies and Practices in Europe The report looks not only at the opportunities for under-qualified adults to achieve a formal qualification, but it also covers policies and measures for enhancing the participation of adult returners in higher education. (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)) |
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UK. Employers need to train and performance manage older workers better or risk falling foul of the law when Default Retirement Age is phased out, shows CIPD survey Survey demonstrates that older workers are often neglected when it comes to training and performance management. (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)) |
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US. Employers Express Concern About Proposal to Weaken Linkage Between Federal Job Training Programs and Those Who Create Jobs Proposal to Prohibit Business Majorities on Advisory Boards Would Undercut Effectiveness of Programs in Providing Skills That Are Relevant to Employers' Needs (HR Policy Association) |
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Reporting back from eLearning Africa 2011 eLearning Africa (eLA) bills itself as 'the premier annual event bringing together e-learning and ICT-supported education and training professionals from across the continent. (World Bank) |
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Thinking of making a career shift? What are your Core Competencies that translate into any field? For people looking to transition into the nonprofit sector in helping identify how their competencies could transfer into a new career. (Scribd) |
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Executive education The Financial Times presents the 2011 rankings for providers of customised executive education programmes as well as providers of open-enrolment courses, with analysis http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/cb3be200-7569-11e0-8492-00144feabdc0.pdf or http://www.ft.com/intl/businesseducation/executiveeducation2011 (Financial Times) |
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HR Policy Association and Business Roundtable Launch E-Training to Prepare U.S. College Students for the Workforce An online course for college students and recent graduates, which introduces both the professional skills necessary for entry level employees to succeed in the workplace and the challenges and expectations they will face. (HR Policy Association) Related course. JobSTART101: Smart Tips and Real-World Training |
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A Skilled Workforce for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth. A G20 Training Strategy The cornerstones of a policy framework for developing a suitably skilled workforce are: broad availability of good-quality education as a foundation for future training; a close matching of skills supply to the needs of enterprises and labour markets; enabling workers and enterprises to adjust to changes in technology and markets; and anticipating and preparing for the skills needs of the future. (International Labour Organization (ILO)) |
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CTEs Role in Worker Retraining This Issue Brief describes how career and technical education (CTE) programs play a pivotal role in retraining adults and providing them the skills needed to re-enter the workforce or advance along career pathways. (Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)) |
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Enabling Fruitful Learning in Organizations In our disruptive world, an organization's capacity to facilitate learning—to acquire, apply, and spread new insights-has been touted as the fundamental strategic capability and a leading source of competitive advantage. (Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre) |
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Conceptual evolution and policy developments in lifelong learning The Forum and the papers collected in this publication seem to regards lifelong learning as a concept resting upon the integration of learning and living - both horizontally in life-wide contexts across family, cultural and community settings, study, work and leisure, and vertically over an individual's whole life from birth to old age. (UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning) |
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Partnering with Employers to Promote Job Advancement for Low-Skill Individuals
The research presented is useful to agencies working with low-skill individuals, policymakers and businesses. (National Institute for Literacy) |
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Beyond Basic Skills: State Strategies to Connect Low-Skilled Students to an Employer-Valued Postsecondary Education This publication gives an overview of low-skilled student success trends in educational programs, the public costs of those trends, and the status of existing services. (Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)) |
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Guide to Adult Education for Work: Transforming Adult Education to Grow a Skilled Workforce This guide outlines specific steps for transforming adult education programs by stepping up service delivery to individuals who lack the fundamental literacy, English language, and work readiness skills needed for family sustaining employment and career advancement. (Jobs for the Future) |
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Promoting Learner Transitions to Postsecondary Education and Work: Developing Academic Readiness Skills from the Beginning This brief describes the importance of teaching adult learners postsecondary and workplace readiness skills to transition to and participate successfully in higher levels of education or employment. (Center for Applied Linguistics) |
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Business Results Through Essential Skills and Literacy This guidebook can be used by businesses or literacy providers to develop assessments of the essential skills needed in the workplace to improve or maintain the skills necessary to stay competitive. (Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters) |
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Doing business together: Adult Education and Business partnering to Build a Qualified Workforce The document draws on the experience of 20 states with extensive experience in workforce and workplace education programming. (Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy) |
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Research paper. Vocational education and training for the common good - The macrosocial benefits of VET VET might be expected to offer macrosocial benefits through two mechanisms: the aggregate human capital stock and education equity. (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training - CEDEFOP) |
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Document. Labor competency certifications in commercial occupations: a literature review Firms generally seek to acquire a competent and stable workforce, as well as to maintain and upgrade the aggregate knowledge and skills of their workers at the lowest possible cost. In doing so, they routinely face imperfect and assymetrical information, together with recruiting, turnover, and other transaction costs. (World Bank) |
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Annual Report. Compare and learn more about the European national vocational education and training systems Country reports are a product of the VET in Europe project and review vocational education and training systems in Member States, Iceland and Norway. They are prepared and updated by ReferNet, according to a common structure provided by Cedefod. (CEDEFOD) |
