Image: Uber-owned Otto is perfecting the technology that will let trucks drive themselves. Source: Tony Avelar/AP There’s no shortage of studies and analysis suggesting that robots can potentially take our jobs. But exactly how far away are we from losing our livelihoods to automation? Artificial intelligence experts with the BBC surveyed 352 scientists about automation, […]

Skills expert Nicholas Wyman speaks with Forbes Social media Editor Kim Horner in the first webinar event of a series called ‘Level Up’ Nicholas Wyman is a workforce development and skills expert, author, speaker and CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation. Nicholas is a leader in developing skills-building, mentorship and apprenticeship programs […]

By 2025, two million jobs will be unfilled because U.S. companies won’t be able to find the skilled labor they need. Many of these jobs provide a middle-class salary — some pay six figures annually — and don’t require a four-year-degree. How to get one of these jobs? Apprenticeships. This age-old practice with origins in […]

By Nicholas Wyman   When a room full of passionate apprenticeship advocates met in Washington last week for the first day of the Apprenticeship Forward conference, the mood was understandably upbeat and optimistic. Why? Because calls for the U.S. to expand apprenticeship programs seem to be gaining more traction daily. And overnight the news had […]

It’s graduation season, which means one thing: lots of unsolicited advice for grads. So, what can we make of this flood of insight? Well, some of it’s good. Some of it’s bad. Some of it’s downright ugly. And then there’s the stuff that’s quite spot-on, but seldom heard. Business Insider spoke with a number of […]

Áine Cai, 10 May 2017 ‘Job interviews are a piece of cake’ Understandably, plenty of recent grads are terrified over the prospect of applying for gigs and lining up job interviews. It’s a stressful process, especially if you’ve never done it before. But sugarcoating reality and telling grads not to fret over job applications is […]

By Nicholas Wyman, 29 April 2017 At the recent White House roundtable discussion on vocational education attended by president Trump and German chancellor Angela Merkel, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, called on the President to “take a moonshot goal to create 5 million apprenticeships in the next five years.” Given the president campaigned […]

by Nicholas Wyman. The White House roundtable last week has shone a spotlight on the countries job, skills and training needs for the 21st century workplace. With German Chancellor Angela Merkel and leading American and German industrial CEOs seated at the Cabinet table, President Donald Trump praised Germany’s long-term approach in using on apprenticeships programs […]

Source: http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/does-college-help-everyone-equally/3771051.html Higher education has been a dream for generations of men and women all over the world. Many people consider higher education a major step on the path towards success. Most high-paying jobs require a college or university degree. And parents often begin saving for their children’s college years when they are still young. […]