Editor's Comments: A recent Skills Audit identified that Rawanda is facing a skills gap. A new program in Technical and Vocational Education & training (TVET) will address this skills gap. ********** The Government of Rwanda and India Export-Import (Exim) Bank, yesterday, signed a financing agreement, worth $81 million (about Rwf68 billion), to support the establishment of an integrated Technical and Vocational Educational and Training (TVET) system. The fund will go toward

Editor's Comments: This innovative program will help to close the skills gap in health care. Other areas facing similar problems should be paying attention and learn. ********** The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the health care industry will add more than 4 million jobs between now and 2022. Among the several reasons for that projection cited by the bureau: • An aging population. The number of people ages 65 and older is projected to grow by 40 percent between no

A study by IPC finds that most electronics companies are having a hard time finding qualified production workers and skilled engineers. Editor's Comments: The tech skills gap in manufacturing has been caused by the retirement of the baby boomers combined with an outdated image that manufacturing is dirty, offers few career prospects and is a dying industry. This could not be further from the truth but the result is that young people are not interested in going into manufact

The UK manufacturing industry is calling on Government to step up and do more to encourage young people to consider engineering as a career and thereby help close the ongoing skills gap. This is according to a new poll of over 600 industry professionals commissioned by the UK’s manufacturing supply chain show, Subcon (taking place 6-8 June 2017 at NEC, Birmingham) and industry trade magazine The Engineer. The survey revealed that: • 67% of UK manufacturers are worr

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is endowed with a young, growing and increasingly well-educated population, which, if skilled for tomorrow’s jobs and offered new and productive employment opportunities, has the potential to significantly enhance the region’s growth. However, with 31% of young people unemployed, new and urgent action is needed to realize this potential. In addition, even when skilled talent is present – particularly educated women – it is not being dep

Editor's Comments: I commend the efforts of NAO (New Employment Opportunities) to close the gap between the skills of young people and the demand among companies for qualified personnel by addressing these problems in a systemic manner and not simply through isolated and ad hoc efforts. Their focus on scaling up effective models of vocational guidance, training, and job-placement services in an effort to increase the quality and relevance of job placement services and job o

Up to 1,707 government employees in managerial and technical positions are past the retirement age of 60 but have been retained due to a skills shortage that has hampered their replacement. A public service report released last week indicates that retained workers who are aged above 61 account for 0.57 per cent of the government workforce, excluding Teachers Service Commission staff and those in State agencies. The aged workforce adds to about 1,707 based on the total 299,500

NAIROBI, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Flourishing Sino-Kenya bilateral ties have lately focused on human resources development to bridge skills gap across key economic sectors in the East African nation, an official of the Chinese embassy in Kenya said. Guo Ce, Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Kenya, said Beijing has prioritized skills and technology transfer to empower local youth in its bilateral cooperation with East Africa's largest economy. Guo singled

Editor's Comments: The ageing or 'silver workforce' is a key part of the skills gap and yet few talent strategies take the opportunity of this demographic into account. Whether it is manufacturing or technology the issue is the same - too few people to fill the available jobs and a mismatch between the skills the job requires and those of potential employees. ********** The ageing workforce is an increasing issue facing modern manufacturing in the UK. Consider your own busi

Editor's Comments: This report is a 'must read' if you are concerned about the STEM skills gap and finding ways to close it. Part three of an ongoing series based on our recent PPI report: Bridging the STEM skills gap: Employer/educator collaboration in New York New York created close to 100,000 jobs between December 2015 and December 2016. Yet in many regions of the state the population is not growing. (Population increases downstate and in the Capital Region/Hudson Valley