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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its employment projections for 2014-2024. The BLS news release highlights several relevant findings to the fields of adult education and career pathways. Two key highlights are noted below: Age Increase in Our Workforce
February is CTE Month. This is a great time to talk with adult learners about the types of high growth or high priority occupations that exist in your local area that only require short-term training. Many short term training programs offered by CTEs can get adult learners the credentials they need to start on a promising career path. Once they are working, many adults continue to stack ...
As many LINCS Integrating Technology group members know, digital literacy skills have become increasingly essential to workers at all levels. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 77% of jobs will require some degree of technology skills within the next decade. As workforce centers, Adult Basic Education programs and libraries seek to equip job seekers with the basic skills they ...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has published an article, based on BLS data, showing the occupations where workers are most likely to have a license or certification. The report also highlights BLS growth projections for selected occupations. So, what is the difference between a license and a certification, you ask?
Retail will wobble. Automation will inch along but stay off the roads, for now. The rich will keep getting richer. And more and more of the country will be paid to take care of old people. That is the future of the labor market, according to the latest 10-year forecast from the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
Reporter, Adela Soliz, defines certificates as "explicitly vocational and requir[ing] fewer credits for completion than an associate's degree". She further notes that the National Center for Education Statistics' Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS) divides certificates into tow categories. There are long-term certificates ...
(Via the US Bureau of Labor Statistics) Regarding the job outlook from 2019-2029, employment in software development is projected for 22% growth. (Via the US Bureau of Labor Statistics) Overall, since 1990, employment in STEM occupations has grown 79%—increasing from 9.7 million to 17.3 million. (Via a 2018 article from Pew Research Center)
Students with high levels of grammatical competence in the second language do not always have high levels of sociocultural ability (Felix-Brasfeder, 2003). Li (2009) found that Mandarin Chinese learners of English tend to transfer their first language pragmatic skills and habits into the second language environment; in other words, they assume that communicative patterns from their first ...
The July 31 OCTAE Connection published the following announcement about the occupational outlook for career and technical education teachers. It also contains a link to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which, if you haven't accessed it before, you will find helpful in guiding your adult learners in choosing career paths.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Handbook shows that adult education teachers typically need a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree. Some of us have a college degree in education, while others like myself have training in a different field. Much like our students, we bring knowledge and expertise from different areas to adult education.