Sentences with phrase «close skill gaps»

So I spent a lot of time over the last 20 to 25 years thinking about how to close skill gaps measured by test scores.

Without a doubt, it's important to know and to make plans to close skill gaps and challenge on - level or higher - performing students, but the concept of «good enough for now» leaves me wanting to know more.

Quickly close skill gaps, develop new skills and track how skill enhancement impacts the on - the - job performance of your employees.

The point is that the smartphone has and continues to close the skill gap between the US and the rest of the world.

Join Rensselaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce in honoring Bob Horan's legacy of collaborations between business and education to close the skills gap.

I look forward to working together with the Bronx Chamber and our wonderful local employers to close the skills gap, connect job seekers with permanent employment opportunities, and ultimately, build a brighter future for all Bronxites.»

With 10 days in the legislative session remaining after Tuesday, Senate Republicans are playing a long game with a series of workforce development proposals they say could help close a skills gap between employees and employers statewide.

Brad Smith, who is Microsoft's general counsel and executive vice president of legal and corporate affairs and based in Redmond, Washington, said, «Unless we close the skills gap, we're not going to fully address the employment gap.»

How quickly is an organization closing the skill gap?

There are many reasons to promote EdTech and close the skills gap in Africa.

«By working closely with UK universities to raise awareness of data analytics skills and giving hands on training, we are helping to close the skills gap that exists between today's graduates and the workplace — but we see this is just the beginning.»

Since an individual's data footprint can throw sharp focus on the areas that he / she is interested in or needs skills upgrading, a personalized eLearning plan helps organizations close the skills gap with ease and also demonstrates to the employees that they are valuable enough to invest in.

One of the biggest challenges corporate managers say they face in 2015 is closing the skills gap.

Read more to learn why eLearning is one part of the puzzle to close the skills gap in Africa.

The Apprentice, But for Real: How Some Companies Close the Skills Gap (Foreign Policy) Professor Emeritus Bob Schwartz discusses an employer culture problem and how employers need to adopt programs that help close the skills gap.

As part of this research effort, Fuller analyzes America's middle - skills jobs market focusing on what employers, policymakers, and educators can do to close the skills gap, especially in areas critical to U.S. competitiveness.

«Digitally savvy» businesses are being encouraged to work with school teachers to close the skills gap in STEM subjects.

The academy's president, Professor Dame Ann Dowling, rightly stated that this is a critical time for Britain's engineering sector and educators and businesses must work more closely together than ever before if we are to close the skills gap.

Learn how our client closed the skill gap for those moving into leadership positions to keep them confident, engaged, and employed.

«If Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, and Newcastle are to be engine rooms of a Northern powerhouse, one of their priorities must be working with the towns on their borders to raise attainment and close skills gaps across a wider area.»

As the Chancellor gives his Budget next week, we call on the Government to set out a social justice and skills strategy to close the skills gap and end educational inequality.

Talent Development Secondary links instructional materials that use evidence - based practice to close skills gaps and build students» advanced thinking skills with on - site professional development via instructional coaches and professional learning communities

Scaling P - TECH and other public - private CTE partnerships will allow Congress, states, and program leaders to close the skills gap and give every American student and worker the opportunity to succeed.

«The way we will promote long - term prosperity for all Americans is by closing the skills gap that is hampering our ability to compete globally.»

Federal Reserve Chair advocates that banks can help close the skills gap for low - and moderate - income Americans.

Powerful new scaffolds and supports for Boost, Access, Español and Achieve Intensive are specially designed to close the skills gap and boost college and career readiness in 2017 - 2018.

How Honeywell hopes to train tomorrow's factory workers with an AR / VR simulator based on Microsoft HoloLens (TechRepublic) A new AR / VR simulator from Honeywell uses Microsoft HoloLens to help train industrial employees and could even aid companies in closing the skills gap.

Studies show that providing your employees with training opportunities is a great way to lower turnover, close the skills gap, boost productivity, and ultimately, pad the bottom line.

The poor representation of women in IT does nothing to help close this skills gap.

While this isn't surprising, it makes it all the more urgent to close the skills gaps in science, technology, engineering and maths to support the recovery.»

Big Data and competency - based education unite in the RightSkill (SM) program — an exciting new initiative that connects learning and real - world employer demand to help close the skills gap

«I'm currently studying to close my skills gap in this area,» he explains.

Not exact matches

The policy patched over any skills gaps until they could be closed through immigration.

Founded in 2010, General Assembly aims to offer «dynamic training to close the global skills gap.»

They include IBM, which is helping urban high schools close the STEM skills gap, and 23andMe, which is empowering consumers to learn about their genetic risks — and the lifestyle choices they can make, in some cases, to lower them.

This analysis should lead to clearly identifiable skills gaps, and reveal what actions will be required to close them.

Kenney ignored the incident and continued with his remarks about the need to close the expanding skills gaps in certain sectors.

«Promoting Internet access nationwide and increasing STEM education will ensure Canada's workforce has the skill set needed for a 21st Century economy and help Canada close the competitiveness gap that exists with other G20 nations.»

Skilled labour gaps must be closed to reduce the current constraints on growth and productivity.

So for me, the tier 2 (Guice, Michel, etc) are closer in skill level / value and can be had in the top of the 2nd, while if we miss out on someone like Derwin, there likely will be a much larger gap in skill in rd2 (in fact, it would be a mistake to draft one in round 2, and we may as well wait until round 4 at that point).

Heckman, a Nobel laureate, argues that ability gaps between middle - class and low - income children open up early in life, and that the skills they need to close that gap have more to do with personal traits than with knowledge acquisition.

Furthermore it says efforts to close the engineering and digital skills gap must continue and Government should commission a detailed cost - benefit analysis to provide a realistic indication of the economic benefits of CAVs, which are as yet unsubstantiated.

If elected, «I will continue to fight to reduce our housing imbalance, and use my management skills to close gaps in our human services.»

«All the things we're doing in education, from Sure Start to higher education and through to adult skills, is about closing the social class gap,» he told the magazine.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg and his running mate State Representative Christina Hale are unveiling a job creation plan they say will help close the state's skills gap, lead to higher paying jobs and improve Indiana's image.

In order to close the education achievement gaps at the local and global levels, we must find a way to factor in these non-cognitive skills and re-formulate how we measure and advance our students.

Closing the Language Skills Gap Among Children: It's Never Too Soon to Start [September 28, 2016] Many children are at a disadvantage even before they walk into an early Head Start or pre-K program.

The panel discussion entitled «Closing the Language Skills Gap Among Children: It's Never Too Soon to Start» was part of the Neuroscience and Society Series, a partnership between AAAS and the Dana Foundation, a philanthropic organization that supports brain research.

Affluent students who receive a top - notch education may acquire this skill as a matter of course, but this capacity is often lacking among low - income students who attend struggling schools — holding out the hopeful possibility that retrieval practice could actually begin to close achievement gaps between the advantaged and the underprivileged.

Such concerns have led the European Commission (EC) to develop an ambitious strategy for human resources and mobility, based on four priorities: making science more attractive for young people; improving training and mobility opportunities to facilitate the access of researchers to new knowledge and skills, and to attract researchers to Europe; developing better job opportunities for researchers by closing the gap between academia and industry; and improving public recognition of the researcher's status and profession.