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Rowan King – Universities UK, 2025
Universities are critical to the success of a growth-driving industrial strategy, and to the sector plans, which must capitalise on the higher education sector's contributions: (1) developing a high-skilled workforce for the nation; (2) collaborating with businesses, further education colleges and Mayoral Strategic Authorities to bring coherence…
Descriptors: Universities, Industry, Labor Force Development, Job Skills
State Approaches to Short-Term Postsecondary Credentials: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Gaps
Christina Sedney; Patrick Lane – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2025
The report "State Approaches to Short-Term Postsecondary Credentials: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Gaps" explores how state policymakers engage with short-term postsecondary credentials, highlighting key policy levers such as state authorization, consumer protections, financial aid, and quality standards. It examines the…
Descriptors: State Policy, Microcredentials, Postsecondary Education, Consumer Education
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
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
Kristin A. Oliver; Victoria Borish; Bethany R. Wilcox; H. J. Lewandowski – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
As quantum technologies transition out of the research lab and into commercial applications, it becomes important to better prepare students to enter this new and evolving workforce. To work toward this goal of preparing physics students for a career in the quantum industry, a senior capstone course called "Quantum Forge" was created at…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Capstone Experiences, Quantum Mechanics
Muhammad Haziq Mazlan; Saifullizam Puteh; Zunuwanas Mohamad; Nor Lisa Sulaiman; Kahirol Mohd Salleh; Wan Rosemehah Wan Omar; Rosnawati Buhari; Hartoyo Mp – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to identify and explore the critical components of Industry 4.0 (IR4.0) talent domains needed by Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) students through work-based learning (WBL) programs in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative research design was employed, involving semi-structured…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Work Based Learning, Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education
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
Thomas Gauthier – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: American Community colleges are vital to the country's economic mobility and are leaders in developing and facilitating career, technical, and workforce education. This study explored employer perspectives on employees' common and specialized skills across industries in the United States. Design/methodology/approach: Employers were…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Job Skills, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness
Alisha Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined higher education workforce development practitioners' views on incorporating innovation ecosystems into workforce models to address U.S. workforce pipeline gaps and evolving labor market needs. While current programs have some success, they often fail to prepare graduates with knowledge and specific skills for rapid entry into…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Labor Needs, Education Work Relationship
Davis Jenkins; John Fink; Tatiana Velasco – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2025
In this report, the authors use Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data to classify the 1.425 million degrees and certificates that community colleges awarded in academic year 2022-23 by intent (i.e., whether the program is designed to enable students to enter the workforce, transfer to a bachelor's degree program, or explore…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Certificates, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees
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
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
This playbook provides ways in which Governors and teams can blur the lines between high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce. Governors play a significant role to Raise the Bar for student success by developing an "education-to-workforce system" that focuses on Unlocking Career Success.
Descriptors: State Government, State Officials, Governance, High Schools
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