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Jinfang Cai; Michitaka Kosaka – SAGE Open, 2024
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) plays a pivotal role in equipping young individuals with technical skills and competencies, enhancing their employability. TVET is distinct for its student-centered and industry-oriented features, often involving enterprises in on-site training. In this study, we conceptualized TVET as a…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Services, School Business Relationship, Education Work Relationship
Betsy Tessler; Surina Goel – Maryland State Department of Education, 2025
Even in good economic times, many adults in the United States have trouble finding jobs that pay enough to support their families. One policy response has been to help these workers build more skills, with promising findings from some sector-based programs that train individuals to work in specific high-demand industries. The Pay for Success Clean…
Descriptors: Energy, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship, Job Training
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Ellie Koseda; Ivan K. Cohen; Jasmine Cooper; Bryan McIntosh – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
In recent years, there has been a change in the objectives of Higher Education (HE): the inclusion of employability. The successful inclusion of employability as a goal of HE requires a change to the sector's teaching, learning and assessment (TLA) methods, which ought to be part of an HEI's strategy. In particular, there needs to be an emphasis…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Curriculum Design, Higher Education, Learning Objectives
E. Alvarado; S. Blochinger – Business-Higher Education Forum, 2024
West central Georgia has become a burgeoning center for advanced manufacturing and logistics. With facilities for global brands across automotive, agriculture, tech, and biotech industries, the region (which includes Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Haralson, Heard, Meriwether, and Troup counties) has experienced a 100+ percent surge in job demand for…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education, Job Skills, Labor Force Development
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Jessie Stadd; Jamie Harris; Blaire Willson Toso – RTI International, 2025
This spotlight discusses the critical role of immigrants in the U.S. labor market and the importance of services that support their economic integration. Immigrants represent a significant and growing portion of the U.S. workforce and are essential for addressing labor market needs, especially in multilingual and diverse roles. The workforce…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Labor Market, Adult Education, Partnerships in Education
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Harnisch, Thomas L. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
As state political leaders look toward a postpandemic era, they are being presented with complex economic and workforce development challenges that will require intensive, intentional collaboration between business, higher education, and state government. Workforce participation rates remain far below prepandemic levels, businesses continue to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Business Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Education Work Relationship
Cooper, Donna; Herzenberg, Stephen – Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, 2023
Pennsylvania has a fragmented, underfunded high school career-related education system. This undercuts success in college and careers for hundreds of thousands of students annually, while exacerbating skill shortages for businesses and throttling Pennsylvania's economy. Pennsylvania also has a legislature that supports career-related education on…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Education, Labor Needs, Labor Force Development
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, 2025
This annual report contains the following sections: (1) Role of the State Regents; (2) Higher Education Update; (3) State System Fast Facts; (4) Affordability; (5) Key Initiatives; (6) Enrollment; (7) Outcomes; (8) Workforce Development; and (9) Institutional Highlights. The strength of Oklahoma's public higher education system shows in enrollment…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governing Boards, Trustees, State Colleges
Paula Whitacre – National Academies Press, 2024
The CHIPS and Science Act recognized the importance of exposure to innovation and entrepreneurial concepts at the K-12 level by codifying into law the intention of broadening the base of Americans engaged in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) has long sought ways…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, STEM Education, Workshops, Innovation
Jeannine LaPrad; Lindsey Reichlin Cruse; Kate Michaels – National Skills Coalition, 2024
Postsecondary education and training have become essential to economic mobility, and equitable access to postsecondary education and training is critical to building an inclusive economy. Part of building inclusivity is increasing the number of and diversity of working people earning these quality credentials in workforce education and training…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Equal Education, Economic Status
Patrick, Susan; Alderman, Khamiah; Gagnon, Laurie – Aurora Institute, 2023
We know the importance of learning experiences that happen beyond the confines of a traditional classroom. But how might federal policy support such experiences to prepare young people for life after high school? That's where work-based learning comes in -- a strategy designed to help students connect what they learn in the classroom with what is…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Career Pathways
Keri D. Ingraham – American Enterprise Institute, 2025
The urgent need to build a strong pipeline of career-ready high school graduates is growing rapidly, just as more parents, students, and employers are questioning the diminishing value of traditional higher education. Increasingly, employers in high-demand and high-growth industries are placing greater value on job-ready skills than on traditional…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Readiness, Higher Education, Employer Attitudes
Amy Loyd – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2023
States have an opportunity in 2024 to establish a single, unifying vision for how funding for multiple federal education and workforce development programs can be brought together to promote economic mobility and strengthen their state's economy. State plans authorized by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, as amended…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Labor Force Development
David Altstadt; David Bradley; Mary Clagett; Erica Cuevas; Gopika Mavalankar; Karishma Merchant; Ethan Pollack – Jobs for the Future, 2024
In this policy road map, Jobs for the Future (JFF) offers common-sense, field-tested policy solutions that state and federal lawmakers can enact today to begin reengineering education and workforce systems toward the vision and core principles of No Dead Ends. These policy recommendations are organized under four key priority areas: (1) Empower…
Descriptors: Policy, Policy Formation, Career Pathways, Strategic Planning
Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2024
Senate Bill 22-192, titled Opportunities for Credential Attainment called on the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) to work collaboratively with other state agencies, institutions of higher education (IHEs), employers and other stakeholders to build 10 stackable credential pathways across five high-value, high-demand industries between…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Education Work Relationship, Health Services, Computer Software
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