- $99.95
Creating the Workforce Your Future Demands
- Course
- 19 Lessons
- 365-day access
Today, knowledge and skills are the only route to personal and community prosperity. But unless you connect education to employment, you are exporting your best talent to some other place. A local ladder of opportunity can make all the difference. Learn how to build one in this one-hour, self-paced online course, which shares the best practices of communities in Canada, Europe and the US. 12-month subscription. FREE to ICF members with member code. EDAC members receive 5 points toward Ec.D. certification by completing seven courses.
What you will learn
In Course 4, you will –
Discover how a mismatch between skills and employment demand leads to brain drain that undermines a community's econony and society.
Analyze how partnerships among educators, employers and government contribute to economic development.
Learn how to engage primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities with local government and employers to turn education into a ladder of opportunity.
Analyze the educational assets and partnerships in your community and identify missing parts of the ladder of opportunity.
Course 4
Developing your workforce today takes creative collaboration among educators, employers and government to build a ladder of opportunity stretching from school to work. Course 4 explains how communities have built this collaboration and achieved extraordinary results. Free to ICF members with member code. EDAC members receive discounts on courses and 5 points toward Ec.D. certification for completing all seven.