The debate on whether skills training could emerge as a viable and scalable future alternative to college is long standing and heated. There appears to be, however, a mounting consensus that ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Students preparing for a job interview have to face a "stark new reality", reads a recent article by Rachel Metz for CNN Business: they could be vetted in part by ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO
Please don’t spend too much time looking up the Chaos Management Skills Assessment. It is a fictitious project, which we set up for the exclusive ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
About 32 million unique online vacancy postings from seven EU countries (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, UK) have been collected by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and processed ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
In a recent interview for "EdSurge" Sean Gallagher, Ed.D. (1) discusses the rapidly changing field of graduate education. The offer is booming and increasingly diversified, he says. Degrees now come in all shapes and ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
A joint report by the OECD and the UK-based charity "Education and Employers" was presented in Davos at the World Economic Forum 2019 on January the 23rd. The report is inspired by a survey of ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Just out: the World Economic Forum's "The future of jobs" 2018 edition. The report foresees major disruptions to labour markets, but says ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Bias and discrimination are "creeping" more and more into day-to-day (automated) decisions on access to jobs, credit, parole and many more areas. In a recent talk at EmTech Digital, Tess Posner, Executive Director at AI4ALL, says ... Read more >
Several competitions between the latest generation of machine translation (MT) systems and panels of experienced human translators have been staged and made it into the news. This may have some entertainment value and, for now, bring old school translators some respite but, in my view, it misses the point entirely. ... Read more >