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Community colleges already play a major role helping military members transition to private-sector careers, but more can be done to better align the skills people learn in the military with employers’ requirements.
That's one of the conclusions to come out of the opening session of the American Association of Community Colleges’ Workforce Development Institute. Experts emphasized a need for today’s learning to be “learner-centered"—and one that calls for evaluating and rewarding what learners know and can do, regardless of where they were trained.

Workers are regularly reminded today that their current ways of working are at risk as more job tasks become automated and more choices and ideas are left to algorithms.
The good news is that a better insurance policy can be found in education, particularly in programs that help students master a hybrid of human skills and technical knowledge.

A Swiss company is bringing its apprenticeship model to Utah to build a skilled workforce for its new facility in this country. The Swiss model has students split time between classes and paid, on-the-job training to get skills for a specific industry.
Stadler Rail, a Swiss manufacturing company that has contracts to build trains in California and Texas, decided to replicate the apprenticeship system after finding a dearth of employees with the correct skills for its U.S. facility in Salt Lake City.

As the field of Democratic presidential candidates narrows, each prospective nominee’s policy proposals are being scrutinized by pundits and voters alike.
The Chronicle breaks down the legislative agendas of the six candidates who participated in the final primary debate—Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, and Elizabeth Warren—and where they stand on the most popular higher-ed policy issues.