What Employers Really Think About Apprenticeships — and Why It Matters
Research points to ways to streamline and strengthen apprenticeship to make it more appealing to employers.
State-Led, Federal Impact
A new apprenticeship project, backed by the Labor Department, aims to create more consistent standards across states for training, must-have skills, and what counts as a high-impact job. Also, confusion…
New Effort Aims to Get States on the Same Page on Apprenticeship
The Labor Department is funding a new initiative to help states create more clear and consistent standards for apprenticeship training and skills.
Learning Without Borders
A new effort to move the U.S. from a “schooled society” to a “learning society,” amid AI and major demographic shifts. Also, Anthropic and congressional Democrats call for job training…
Job Training Funding by Big Tech
Anthropic and congressional Democrats call for a policy response that matches the scale of AI-driven job displacement.
New Effort Pushes the U.S. to Stop Getting ‘Schooled’ and Start Learning
A collaborative led out of Stanford University hopes to pull together disparate efforts into a unified vision for a “learning society”—one that blurs the line between education and work and…
Job-Ready IT Talent
A new partnership seeks to take the risk out of IT apprenticeships to encourage corporations to foot the bill. Also, a workforce platform for companies and governments that connects jobseekers…
R&D Versus Welfare
Rachel Lipson calls for treating federal job training as a long-run investment in economic growth, getting an endorsement from Ford’s CEO. Also, Republicans in D.C. want to cut workforce funding…
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