Canada/Québec. Assurance emploi: Québec lance une commission d’examen sur les initiatives d’Ottawa

Le tout premier mandat de la commission concerne la réforme de l’assurance-emploi annoncée par le gouvernement conservateur, mais aussi les modifications aux fonds fédéraux alloués pour la formation de la main-d’oeuvre, annoncées dans le dernier budget Flaherty.
http://www.lesaffaires.com/secteurs-d-activite/gouvernement/assurance-emploi-quebec-lance-une-commission-d-examen-sur-les-initiatives-d-ottawa/555962#.UWJaScruzPE

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Canada/Québec En français Programme - formation Programme - gouvernement Source: Les Affaires

Canada. Les diplômés du secondaire désavantagés sur le marché du travail

Les nouveaux employés ne possédant pas d’éducation postsecondaire auront donc de la difficulté à améliorer leur sort au sein de l’entreprise. Quarante et un pour cent des employeurs ont avoué qu’il était peu probable qu’ils accordent une promotion à un employé qui n’a pas de diplôme collégial ou universitaire.
https://www.lesoleil.com/affaires/les-diplomes-du-secondaire-desavantages-sur-le-marche-du-travail-fd29e050dcd9fe99bbed903d795c4242
Voir aussi Canada. L’inflation des diplômes
http://journalmetro.com/opinions/de-bon-conseil/289372/linflation-des-diplomes/

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Article Canada Emploi - tendance En français Jeunes Pénurie - main d'oeuvre Source: Journal Métro Source: La Presse Tendance emploi

Canada’s labour pain: 1.3 million jobless, but not enough skills

Some companies may be having a tough time finding suitable new hires – but Canada’s problem, at least right now, is not a labour shortage.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/canadas-labour-pain-13-million-jobless-but-not-enough-skills/article10595715/

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Article Canada Employment trend In English Mismatch training/workforce - skills Shortage - skills Skills - shortage Source: The Globe and Mail Trend - employment Unemployment

Canada. Flaherty to make skills training a budget focus

The federal budget will take a new look at how provinces handle the $2.5-billion a year Ottawa spends for job skills training programs.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/flaherty-to-make-skills-training-a-budget-focus/article9939200/

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Article Canada Development - skills Economics - taxes and investment In English Shortage - skills Skills - development Skills - shortage Source: The Globe and Mail

Évaluer et démontrer la valeur de la formation – Enjeux, pratiques et tendances à l’heure des nouvelles technologies

Ce nouvel ouvrage n’a pas la prétention d’apporter des réponses définitives à toutes les questions que soulève l’évaluation. Son ambition est de clarifier les enjeux de l’évaluation pour chacune des parties prenantes et de faire le point sur les modèles à notre disposition à la lumière des évolutions qui se sont opérées dans le monde de la formation. Il a surtout pour objectif de partager des bonnes pratiques d’entreprises et de proposer des pistes très concrètes pour démontrer la valeur de la formation.
http://www.crossknowledge.com/fr/media-center/publications/evaluer-roi-formation
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2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Bonne pratique En français Évaluation - formation professionnelle Formation - évaluation Livre blanc Source: CrossKnowledge Technologies de l'information TIC - Technologies de l'information

Canada/Québec. Les impacts de la formation professionnelle et technique sur le développement professionnel des ouvriers

L’échelle de compétences du Comité sectoriel de main-d’œuvre de la fabrication métallique industrielle (CSMOFMI) donne des éléments de réponse à la question de départ : est-ce que les certificats de qualification professionnelle (CQP) peuvent compenser le déclin des diplômés du DEP (Diplôme d’études professionnelles)? Comme les CQP ne comportent pas de savoirs théoriques à transmettre ou de compétences générales à acquérir en dehors des activités de travail, ils ne peuvent remplacer les DEP pour les métiers complexes dont les effectifs évoluent du N4 au N6, sans qu’il y ait d’impacts, à plus ou moins long terme, sur la qualification de la main-d’oeuvre manufacturière.
http://www.oce.uqam.ca/article/les-impacts-de-la-formation-professionnelle-et-technique-sur-le-developpement-professionnel-des-ouvriers

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Analyse Article Canada/Québec En français Fabrication métallique industrielle Formation technique et professionnelle (FTP) FTP - Formation technique et professionnelle Source: OCE - Observatoire compétences-emplois/Université du Québec Statistiques

Canada/Québec. La concertation en milieu de travail entre employeurs et employés au Québec en lien avec le développement et la reconnaissance des compétences de la main-d’oeuvre

La recherche porte sur les différentes pratiques de la concertation en milieu de travail en regard du développement et de la reconnaissance des compétences de la main-d’oeuvre.
http://espace.inrs.ca/2586/

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Acquis - reconnaissance Analyse Canada/Québec Compétences - développement Développement - compétences En français Étude de cas Rapport de recherche Reconnaissance - acquis

France et Québec. La reconnaissance mutuelle de qualifications professionnelles

Cette Entente vise à faciliter et à accélérer l’acquisition d’un permis pour l’exercice d’une profession, d’une fonction ou d’un métier réglementé(e) au Québec ou en France par l’adoption d’une procédure commune de reconnaissance des qualifications professionnelles.
http://emploiquebec.net/publications/pdf/00_etude_guide_sommaire_entente_qcfr.pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Acquis - reconnaissance Canada/Québec Coopération internationale En français France Législation Reconnaissance - acquis Source: Gouvernement du Québec/Emploi Québec

Pakistan/Punjab. Baseline survey : labor market outcomes of Punjab TEVTA graduates

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.
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/03/15927281/baseline-survey-labor-market-outcomes-punjab-tevta-graduates

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Best practice Employability In English Pakistan/Punjab Source: World Bank Survey VET - vocational education and training Working paper

Canada. Does Canada have a labour shortage or a skills shortage?

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. With the national unemployment rate at 7.4 per cent – well above the pre-recession level of about 6 per cent – and with 5.2 unemployed workers for every available job opening reported by employers, it would seem that Canada is not suffering generalized labour shortages.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/does-canada-have-a-labour-shortage-or-a-skills-shortage/article5992219/
& Canada. Upgrading your skills? Better read this first
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/upgrading-your-skills-better-read-this-first/article5914041/

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Analysis - trends Article Canada Employment trend In English Mismatch training/workforce - skills Skills - mismatch training/workplace Skills - shortage Source: The Globe and Mail Trend - analysis Trend - employment

Asia. Graduate employability in Asia

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.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002157/215706e.pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Asia Case study Document Employability ICT - Information technologies In English Indonesia Malaysia Philippines School-to-work transition Source: UNESCO Youth

European Union. Guide for training in SMEs

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.
http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/guide-for-training-in-smes-pbKE7809874/

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Best practice Continuing education Education - continuing European Union Guide In English Small and medium entreprises - SME SME - Small and medium entreprises Source: European Commission Training - workplace Workplace - training

Bangladesh. TVET reform : design an inclusive skills development program

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.
http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/e-forum/Design%20an%20inclusive%20skills%20development%20program%20-%20TVET%20Reform%20Project%20Replication%20Guide%201%20(English).pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Bangladesh Development - skills Document In English Reform - VET Skills - development Source: ILO - International Labour Organization VET - reform

Vocational education and training: policy and practice in the field of special needs education: literature review

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.
https://www.european-agency.org/publications/reviews/vet-policy-and-practice-in-the-field-of-sne-literature-review

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Document Education - special Educational policy In English People with special needs Policy - educational Review - VET Source: European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education Special education VET - review

Canada/Nouvelle Écosse. Stratégie sur la main-d’oeuvre de la Nouvelle Écosse

Au cours des 10 prochaines années, la population néo-écossaise en âge de travailler (les 18 à 64 ans) sera réduite de 47 000 personnes. Durant la même période, la plupart des emplois – et certainement les emplois les mieux payés – seront occupés par des gens qui auront fait des études postsecondaires et qui auront de solides compétences professionnelles. Il n’y aura cependant pas assez de personnes ayant ces qualifications pour répondre à la demande, et certains postes ne seront alors pas comblés, ce qui représente un défi pour les employeurs. La présente stratégie permettra de constituer cette main-d’oeuvre.
https://careers.novascotia.ca/sites/default/files/WorkforceSTRAT-Dec12-2011-FR.pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Besoins - compétences Canada/Nouvelle-Écosse Compétences - besoins Document Emploi - politique Emploi - tendance 2022 En français Pénurie - main d'oeuvre Politique - emploi Programme - gouvernement Source: Gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Écosse Tendance emploi 2022

Developing Global Workforce: An Integrative Intercultural Effectiveness Model for International Human Resource Development

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.
https://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.ca/&httpsredir=1&article=3068&context=aerc

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Conference report 2012 Cross-cultural learning Development - workforce In English Learning - cross-cultural Paper Source: University of Missouri Workforce - development strategy

Canada. Skilled trades talent shortage is next crisis for Canadian businesses

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. Of the 10 jobs business owners found hardest to fill, the most serious gap was in trades — ranking ahead of engineers, teachers and nurses.
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/09/03/skilled-trades-talent-shortage-is-next-crisis-for-canadian-businesses/

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Analysis - trends Article Canada Employment trend In English Skills - shortage Source: Financial Post Trend - analysis Trend - employment

Generation “U”: The Plight of 75 Million Unemployed Youth

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. The solutions to the youth unemployment problem are oft-repeated in many a forum: prioritizing youth-centric policies, structuring continuous skill development programs, developing curricula in touch with the latest needs of the industry, bringing out nationally and internationally accepted skill certification systems, matching skill sets of individuals with the relevant jobs, granting fiscal incentives to the industry for skilling and employing the youth, and promoting entrepreneurial skills amongst youth.
http://www.diplomaticourier.com/2012/09/06/generation-u-the-plight-of-75-million-unemployed-youth/
Related ILO report. Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—dgreports/—dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_180976.pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Analysis - trends Annual report 2012 Economic crisis Generation U In English NEET - not in employment - education or training Source: Diplomatic Courrier Source: ILO - International Labour Organization Trend - analysis Unemployment - youth Youth - unemployment Youth 16-24

Malawi. Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi

Called ‘task shifting’, this strategy involves re-delegating professional tasks to nonprofessional cadres according to a skills-based toolkit. This study exposes our hidden assumption about an axiomatic transferability of Anglo American skills development models to a postcolonial, aid-dependent context. This paper therefore suggests redefining this toolkit by bridging health research into dialogue with non-health disciplinary concerns such as postcolonialism and aiddependence. In conclusion, it argues that professional skills development is context-laden; and in need of a human-centred approach that involves true indigenousparticipation–challenges not unlike those faced by the vocational skills discourse.
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1675/2/LAM.pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Development - skills In English Lower-income countries Malawi Paper Pharmaceutical Industry Skills - development Source: University of Nottingham Strategy - task shifting Task shifting

Canada. Manufacturing sector needs to attract Gen Y

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.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/manufacturing+sector+needs+attract/7082577/story.html

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Article Canada Employment trend Generation Y In English Manufacturing industry Shortage - skills Shortage - workforce Skills - shortage Source: Calgary Herald Trend - employment Workforce - shortage Youth - generation Y

Transforming TVET: Building skills for work and life

Documents of the Third International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, 13-16 May 2012. This study examines evidence of TVET policies and programmes from a range of countries in all world regions. It takes stock of the current situation and asks what policy measures might be taken, in times of economic uncertainty, to facilitate TVET learning and skills progression by more young people, women and men. It promotes the use of more integrated and development sensitive approaches that consider country specific challenges. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002160/216065e.pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Analysis - trends Consensus Shangai Development - skills Document Document - congress In English Shanghai Consensus Skills - development Source: UNESCO Trend - analysis VET - vocational education and training

USA. ‘Efficiency’ and ‘Vocationalism’ as Structuring Principles of Industrial Education in the USA

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.
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12186-008-9016-z.pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Analysis - comparative Comparative analysis Germany History - VET In English Paper Source: Vocations and Learning United States of America VET - history VET - vocational education and training

Students’ Learning Processes during School-Based Learning and Workplace Learning in Vocational Education: A Review

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.
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12186-011-9069-2.pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA In English Learning - process Learning - school based Learning - workplace Paper Review School-based learning Source: Vocations and Learning VET - development Vocational schools Workplace - learning

Canada. Mind the gap: No ‘people skills,’ no job

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/

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Article Canada In English Shortage - skills Shortage - workforce Skills - shortage Source: The Globe and Mail Workforce - shortage

Women and TVET: report of the UNESCO-UNEVOC online conference

The online discussion touched upon the various political, economic and social barriers that prevent girls and women from successfully entering the world of work. Lessons learnt from this debate illustrates the need for building a strong knowledge base on good practices and success stories, which can serve to guide TVET experts on the policy-making level, as well as and perhaps even more so, support the successful implementation of such policies in improving women’s active participation in TVET globally.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002155/215566e.pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Analysis Development - workforce Document Education - access Gender - equity In English Source: UNESCO-UNEVOC VET - vocational education and training Women Workforce - development

Germany. Trends in German VET 2011/2012

This compilation of articles offers an overview of current trends and developments within the German system of vocational education and training, with a particular focus on questions of skills shortage, permeability and monitoring VET.
http://www.bibb.de/veroeffentlichungen/en/publication/download/id/6738

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Analysis - trends Apprenticeship Article Germany In English School-to-work transition Skills - standards Source: BIBB - Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training Standards - skills Trend - VET 2011-2012 VET - trend 2011-2012

Canada/Québec. Les services offerts aux entreprises par le réseau de l’éducation : pour un meilleur accès aux ressources collectives

Position du Gouvernement du Québec afin de relever le défi du développement de la main-d’oeuvre pour répondre aux besoins des entreprises et de la formation continue.
http://www.cse.gouv.qc.ca/fichiers/documents/publications/Avis/50-0472.pdf

2013 April Newsletter Focus Skills Shortage CA Besoins - entreprises Canada/Québec Éducation - supérieure En français Entreprises - besoins Formation - continue Pénurie - main d'oeuvre Programme - gouvernement Source: Gouvernement du Québec/Conseil supérieur de l'éducation

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