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Reconceptualizing Workers as Lifelong Learners
In a rapidly evolving labor market impacted by a complex interaction of economic, demographic, and technological shifts, ensuring that workers remain competitive and that industry and employers' needs are met will depend on developing and maintaining up-to-date and relevant skills.Skill requirements are changing. In a study conducted between 2016 and 2021, on average, 37 percent of the top skills requested for jobs in the United States changed, and one in five skills are new. Automation and the development of emerging technologies such as generative artificial intelligence have and will ...
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What Enrollment Numbers Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Access to Postsecondary Training Programs
While there has been some debate over the value of college, workers and employers still perceive credentials as important for employability. 1 Postsecondary education, or "formal learning opportunities beyond high school,"2 is linked to greater labor force participation, higher employment rates, and increased individual economic success.3 Access to postsecondary training, however, remains an issue.To better understand postsecondary access, in this Workforce Currents we analyze available enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Integrated Postsecondary ...