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Rethinking the U.S. Post-Secondary Education Model: The Relationship between Earning Career and Technical Industry Credentials and the Virginia Economy
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Hendricks, Anjanette; Myran, Steve; Owings, William A.; Katsioloudis, Petros; Kaplan, Leslie S. – Journal of Education Finance, 2021
Nationally, the labor market is seeking workers to fill the increasing number of high salary job vacancies, but those qualified to fill them are in limited supply. The skills and third-party industry credentials earned in secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs seem a perfect fit for the student, employer, and economy. However,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Credentials, Economic Climate, Industry
Gig Qualifications for the Gig Economy: Micro-Credentials and the 'Hungry Mile'
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Wheelahan, Leesa; Moodie, Gavin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
This paper argues that micro-credentials are gig credentials for the gig economy. Micro-credentials are short competency-based industry-aligned units of learning, while the gig economy comprises contingent work by individual 'suppliers'. Both can be facilitated by (often the same) digital platforms, and both are underpinned by social relations of…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Temporary Employment, Credentials, Labor Market
Strategies for a Changing Labor Market: Reskilling and Upskilling for Career Advancement in the Post-COVID-19 Economy. Higher Education and the Labor Market
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Monear, Daryl – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 triggered a recession and deep changes in Washington's labor market. Widespread temporary business closures, followed by a slow-paced phased reopening, have caused soaring unemployment rates. Workers are looking to improve their employability in a rapidly shifting economic landscape by reskilling into…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Training, Labor Market, Career Development
The Growing Gap between Post-Secondary Schooling and Further Education: Findings of 1998, 2004, 2010, and 2016 Surveys of the Employed Canadian Labour Force
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Livingstone, D. W.; Raykov, Milosh – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2017
This article summarizes the findings of a 2016 national survey of the formal schooling, further education, and job-related informal learning of the employed Canadian labour force and compares the results with those of prior national surveys conducted in 1998, 2004, and 2010. The major finding is an unprecedented growing gap between increasing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Adult Education, National Surveys
The Pedagogy of Precarity: Laboring to Learn in the New Economy
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Carfagna, Lindsey B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The relationship between learning and labor has long been a topic of concern for sociologists of education. In this dissertation, I conduct an ethnography of open learning in the United States following the 2008 economic crisis and argue that a new style of learning is emerging amidst changes in the labor market. I call that new style of learning…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Education Work Relationship, Ethnography, Labor Market
NEW CAREERS, ONE SOLUTION TO POVERTY.
PEARL, ARTHUR – 1967
DESPITE THE CURRENT ADVANCE IN TECHNOLOGY AND THE RECENT POPULATION GROWTH, MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT IS STILL AVAILABLE, EVEN FOR MINIMALLY SKILLED PERSONS. A FREE, FLUID, AND "PEOPLE-ORIENTED" SOCIETY SHOULD PROVIDE AS MANY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AS THERE ARE PEOPLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM. THUS IN THE HUMAN SERVICES, WHICH INCLUDE TEACHING AND…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Civil Rights, Credentials, Economic Climate