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A coalition of national college associations is pushing for quicker adoption of skills wallets. We talked to Mike Simmons, from the campus registrars' group, about why the move could help restore faith in college's relevance.

Waiving old college debts underscores a broader reality: Most learners lack true agency over their education and skills.

A guide by Bay Area Community College Consortium, Google, and Stanford offers help to instructors who want to integrate Google Career Certificates into their courses.

Microcredentials can make it much easier for workers to gain and validate the skills they need to evolve professionally.

The report, produced by eCampusOntario’s Research and Foresight Team, found that learners overwhelmingly indicated their interest in using a virtual wallet for both micro-credentials and other educational qualifications. Learners also expressed interest in how wallet systems would function, their universality and security.

Imagine a world in which your resume relies less on titles or diplomas and acts more like a passport of skills you’ve proven you have.

Scaling statewide credit for industry credentials.

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Sopiko Beriashvili and Michael Trucano identify common challenges in implementing digital credential and LER initiatives around the world.

Europass is a set of online tools to help with creating CVs, cover letters and also help users to find jobs and courses in the EU. Europass also matches user skills and interests such as location and topic to success suitable jobs. It is a useful tool to find information on studying or working in the Europe.

Microcredentials are evolving to help different student groups in higher education demonstrate expertise and capabilities.

The Noncredit Research Collaborative combines top researchers to share and publish research on noncredit opportunities in higher education.

Multi-State Data Collaboratives are coalitions of state workforce, education, human services, and other agencies working...

A new report looks at those who earn microcredentials, who are, on the whole, well educated, international, employed. Are the programs accomplishing what advocates thought they would?

Many workers today are stuck in low-paying jobs, unable to advance simply because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree. At the same time, many companies are desperate for workers and not meeting the diversity goals that could help them perform better while also reducing social and economic inequality. All these problems could be alleviated, the authors say, if employers focused on job candidates’ skills instead of their degree status. Drawing on their interviews with corporate leaders, along with their own experience in academia and the business world, the authors outline a “skills-first” approach to hiring and managing talent. It involves writing job descriptions that emphasize capabilities, not credentials; creating apprenticeships, internships, and training programs for people without college degrees; collaborating with educational institutions and other outside partners to expand the talent pool; helping hiring managers embrace skills-first thinking; bringing on board a critical mass of nondegreed workers; and building a supportive organizational culture. IBM, Aon, Cleveland Clinic, Delta Air Lines, Bank of America, and Merck are among the companies taking this approach—and demonstrating its benefits for firms, workers, and society as a whole.

Strada supports programs, policies, and organizations that strengthen connections between education and employment in the U.S., with a special focus on helping those who have faced the greatest challenges securing opportunity through postsecondary education or training.

The challenge: what’s preventing high school work-based learning from becoming more widespread?

Neil, Morgan, and Phil start a mini-series looking at an early 2024 roundup of online education with a view on products. Specifically, how should we view the multiple reports about microcredentials and noncredit offerings as a key strategy for online education moving forward, and are efforts from co…

Taylor Kendal, President of LEF delves into open source initiatives such as digital wallets to revolutionise education and employment records infrastructure.

For many employers in recent decades, adding college degree requirements seemed an efficient filter. More proxy than direct measure, degrees were perceived as indicators of persistence, of foundational skill, and of general capability. For hiring managers who themselves had traveled that cursus hono