Registered Apprenticeship took center-stage on CNN’s ongoing “Where the Jobs Are” series last week.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW) and the National Career Pathways Network (NCPN) have released a joint publication, Thriving in Challenging Times: Connecting Education to Economic Development Through Career Pathways. This resource highlights successful career pathway models that create relevant, challenging learning environments for students and are designed to increase American employers' access to highly-skilled, qualified workers. Thriving in Challenging Times profiles 17 local and two statewide career pathways programs in multiple industry sectors, documenting the challenges, strategies, results, and business engagement each partnership has experienced.
Leveraging Registered Apprenticeship as a Workforce Development Strategy for the Workforce Investment System
Toolkit and White Paper on Improving Transition Outcomes of Youth with Disabilities through Apprenticeship
This interactive online Breeze course provides a basic "101" training about the Workforce Investment system, and how it might be better integrated with Registered Apprenticeship to support the goals of both programs.
This interactive online Breeze course provides a basic "101" training about the Registered Apprenticeship system, and how it might be better integrated to support the Workforce system, the Education system, and other partners.
ETA Announces Availability of "The Benefits and Challenges of Registered Apprenticeship: The Sponsor's Perspective"; Encourages the Use of "Community of Practice" to Share Insights
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A series of “action clinics” hosted by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to support partnership teams in leveraging Registered Apprenticeship as a key talent, reemployment, and job development strategy in their public workforce and education systems.
A series of “action clinics” hosted by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to support partnership teams in leveraging Registered Apprenticeship as a key talent, reemployment, and job development strategy in their public workforce and education systems.
Bloomberg's Olivia Sterns reports on the increase in applications to apprenticeship programs in the U.K. amid a slow jobs market and after the government capped the number of university places available.
On most of America’s Indian reservations, national percentages measuring economic anguish or progress hold scant meaning. Times have always been tough and have only gotten worse during the most recent recession, with nearly half of the work-age members in some parts of Indian Country jobless.
NAVSEA's Wounded Warrior Program seeks to arm experienced Warriors with the education and training to expand their workforce. NAVSEA offers a stable job with the top health, educational and retirement benefits of the federal government.
This report highlights the clinic that took place in April 2010 and discusses Florida's strategy to connect RA and the Workforce system to benefit Florida's employers, employees and economic future.
The state of Michigan will increase support for specific apprenticeship programs from $1,000 to $5,000 per apprentice to better meet the workforce needs of Michigan employers, announced Andy Levin, Michigan's chief workforce officer and acting director of the Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth.
Over 2,000 union apprentices scattered on jobs around Alaska this year are honing their skills in the building trades, acquiring the experience likely to offer them well paying jobs for years to come.
A new report predicts a shortfall in the number of college graduates needed by employers in 2018. But many companies may be overemphasizing the value of college degrees at the expense other forms of training, such as apprenticeships.