Skills2Compete MA Gubernatorial Forum
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All candidates to appear at Skills2Compete Forum on September 28
Posted on September 17, 2010 by SkillWorks
Charlie Baker, Timothy Cahill, Deval Patrick and Jill Stein are all confirmed to attend the Skills2Compete Gubernatorial Candidates’ Forum on September 28 at Bunker Hill Community College. The forum, which will be held from 4 pm to 5:30 pm, will feature remarks from all the candidates on their plans to address the critical concerns of [...]
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Compromising our future
Posted on September 9, 2010 by SkillWorks
According to a recent Boston Globe article, Massachusetts has made some of the deepest cuts to higher education in the nation over the last five years. Between 2004 and 2009, Massachusetts has slashed funding per student by 13.3 percent, while nationally, per-student funding rose by 4 percent. Since 2009, state appropriation for public higher education [...]
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Up and coming middle-skill jobs and training
Posted on September 2, 2010 by SkillWorks
In the wake of our release of the Massachusetts’ Forgotten Middle Skill Jobs report, many people have asked if we can tell them more about middle-skill jobs in the Commonwealth, especially where these jobs are growing and where training is available. As we launch into the new academic year, I thought it would be fitting [...]
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A Youth’s Perspective on Workforce Development
Posted on August 18, 2010 by SkillWorks
I, like most people at the age of 18, was not fully aware of the efforts in the workforce development field until, through the City of Boston’s Summer Jobs program, I landed an internship at SkillWorks for the summer. Now I cannot go a day without either uttering or hearing the words workforce development, jobs, [...]
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The business benefits of investing in lower-wage workers
Posted on August 12, 2010 by SkillWorks
In our last post, we discussed the approach that one business, Nypro, takes to investing in its workforce. A just-released business brief from the National Network for Sector Partners talks about the benefits of making these investments. Through case studies and interviews, the brief makes the case that training and advancing lower-wage workers has top [...]
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Business needs to step up in STEM education
Posted on August 6, 2010 by SkillWorks
A dwindling supply of college graduates in STEM fields matched with an increasing supply of future STEM jobs is a recipe for labor shortages and constraints on economic growth. Yesterday, Mass High Tech issued a call to action for businesses help build a pipeline of workers with STEM skills. Making investments to skill up our [...]
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SkillWorks, Workforce Solutions Group release Massachusetts Forgotten Middle Skill Jobs Report
Posted on July 14, 2010 by SkillWorks
Did you know that through 2016, nearly 400,000 job openings in Massachusetts will require more than a high school education but not a four-year degree? These “middle-skill” jobs comprise 45 percent of the jobs in Massachusetts and are a vital part of our economy. Read more by downloading Massachusetts’ Forgotten Middle Skill Jobs, a report [...]
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400,000 Middle Skill Job Openings in MA?
Posted on July 14, 2010 by SkillWorks
Today’s Boston Globe article, “Training needed for mid-level jobs,” features finding from Massachusetts’ Forgotten Middle Skill Jobs, a new report released by SkillWorks, the Workforce Solutions Group and the National Skills Coalition today. Along with the study, SkillWorks and partners are launching the Skills2Compete Massachusetts campaign with recommendations on how to better prepare our workforce [...]
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