To realize education’s promise, we need to prioritize learning, not just schooling. This Report argues that achieving learning for all will require three complementary strategies: First, assess learning to make it a serious goal. Information itself creates incentives for reform, but many countries lack the right metrics to measure learning. Second, act on evidence to make schools work for learning. Great schools build strong teacher-learner relationships in classrooms. As brain science has advanced and educators have innovated, the knowledge of how students learn most effectively has greatly expanded. But the way many countries, communities, and schools approach education often differs greatly from the most promising, evidence-based approaches. Third, align actors to make the entire system work for learning. Innovation in classrooms won’t have much impact if technical and political barriers at the system level prevent a focus on learning at the school level. This is the case in many countries stuck in low-learning traps; extricating them requires focused attention on the deeper causes.

Over the past several decades, the share of U.S. workers holding an occupational license has grown sharply. When designed and implemented carefully, licensing can offer important health and safety protections to consumers, as well as benefits to workers. However, the current licensing regime in the United States also creates substantial costs, and often the requirements for obtaining a license are not in sync with the skills needed for the job. There is evidence that licensing requirements raise the price of goods and services, restrict employment opportunities, and make it more difficult for workers to take their skills across State lines. Too often, policymakers do not carefully weigh these costs and benefits when making decisions about whether or how to regulate a profession through licensing. In some cases, alternative forms of occupational regulation, such as State certification, may offer a better balance between consumer protections and flexibility for workers. This report outlines the growth of licensing over the past several decades, its costs and benefits, and its impacts on workers and work arrangements. The report recommends several best practices to ensure that licensing protects consumers without placing unnecessary restrictions on employment, innovation, or access to important goods and services.

Manufacturing is a major contributor to the UK economy and continues to be a key economic policy priority both in the UK and other developed economies. Manufacturing is a heterogeneous sector encompassing activities from those which require skill inputs of the highest order, to more mundane, more labour-intensive activities. This variety has been reflected in the report wherever pertinent to do so.

Skillset is the Sector Skills Council representing the Creative Media Industries and as of 1st April 2010 the Fashion and Textiles sector. Skillset works with both the industry and government to identify and tackle the skills and productivity needs of fashion and textiles employers throughout the UK to make sure they have access to the right people, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time. We do this by influencing and leading; developing skills, learning and development and education policy; and through opening up the industries to the UK's pool of diverse talent. Skillset is responsible for the production of Sector Skills Assessments (SSA) for the UK and each of the UK's four constituent nations. This is the executive summary for the SSA for the fashion and textiles industry in the UK.

The O*NET Program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Valid data are essential to understanding the rapidly changing nature of work and how it impacts the workforce and U.S. economy. From this information, applications are developed to facilitate the development and maintenance of a skilled workforce.

Skillset is the Sector Skills Council for the Creative Media industry, representing eleven sub sectors which are grouped into four sectors of the DCMS Creative Industries classification. At the heart of the Creative Industries, the Creative Media sector includes companies involved in: Film, Television, Radio, Photo Imaging, Interactive Content Design, Publishing, Animation, Content for Computer Games, Commercials and Promos, Corporate Production, Postproduction and Visual Special Effects and Other Specialist Facilities. Within the wider definition of the creative industries, the Creative Media industries are bound by common output in the form of creative content and increasingly the boundaries between these business and sectors are becoming blurred. Whilst there are still key distribution platforms including; cinema, TV, books/print Media and online and mobile, companies creating content are doing so in a way that can be used for multiple platforms. The business context is providing an opening of channels for distribution and ‘multi platform content’ is key.

The Automation Readiness Index compares countries on their preparedness for the age of intelligent automation. In assessing the existence of policy and strategy in the areas of innovation, education and the labour market, the study finds that little policy is in place today that specifically addresses the challenges of AI- and robotics-based automation. No country has yet to “take the bull by horns”, in the view of several experts interviewed for the study. A small handful, however, including South Korea, Germany and Singapore— the overall index leaders—have undertaken individual initiatives in areas such as curriculum reform, lifelong learning, occupational training and workplace flexibility

This report takes an early look at this generation’s adult lives so far, including how they are faring in the labor market and how they are organizing their personal lives. This generation is marked by transformations at nearly every important milestone: from changes in parenting practices and schooling choices, to the condition of the U.S. economy they entered, to their own choices about home and family. However, in many cases, Millennials are simply following the patterns of change that began generations ago. Millennials are also the generation that will shape our economy for decades to come, and no one understands that more that the President. It’s why he has put in place policies to address the various challenges their generation faces. This includes policies such as: making student loan payments more affordable; promoting digital literacy and innovation; pushing for equal pay and paycheck fairness; supporting investments and policies that create better-paying jobs; connecting more Americans to job training and skills programs that prepare them for in-demand jobs; supporting access to credit for those who want to buy a home; and increasing access to affordable health care. And it’s why the President will continue to act with Congress and on his own where he can to build on this progress to expand opportunity for Millennials and all Americans

Outlines the skills you need to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work—whether you work on your own or as a part of a team. These skills can also be applied and used beyond the workplace in a range of daily activities.