A century ago, the trauma of war and pandemic gave rise to the frivolous but culturally important Roaring Twenties. In the dumbed-down 21 st century, pandemic and war have produced Netflix’s Is It ...

President Trump issued a flurry of executive orders last week relating to education and workforce development. Most continued the administration’s predictable attacks on traditional higher education, ...

The recent publication of new federal rules for apprenticeship is a landmark event. The National Apprenticeship System Enhancements, which spans 180 pages, proposes a substantial expansion of ...

Companies looking to expand their workforces are turning to apprenticeships and internships, using these programs to train new business contributors. While both programs are effective, they also have ...

Joey Cook was 17 and a junior in high school when he heard about a way to learn a profession while getting paid: by landing an apprenticeship, a path into the workforce that everyone was suddenly ...

JobSquad earned U.S. DOL national registration, enabling nationwide, employer-led apprenticeships that deliver paid ...

For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you.

Apprenticeships, which combine on-the-job training and academic coursework, are often considered the gold standard of workforce training and have attracted substantial bipartisan support. Apprentices ...

Tech apprenticeships offer transformative opportunities, providing hands-on experience and skill development. They’re on the rise, but remain relatively rare in the United States. Apprenticeships in ...

The most recent evidence of more workers — especially Gen-Zers — leaving desk-bound employment for the trades came this month from job posting platform Indeed’s Hiring Lab research unit. It noted that ...

The number of apprentices registered with the Department of Labor surpassed 636,000 in 2020, a 64% increase from the level a decade ago. Despite a brief plateau during the Covid-19 pandemic, the ranks ...

Apprenticeships in England need to be overhauled to stop many young people being awarded practical qualifications that have little worth, a report says. Compared with other European countries, many ...