A new Strada resource offers guidance for organizations that are positioned to play a vital role in addressing these challenges: employer intermediaries.
Work-based learning experiences help learners build valuable skills. They give employers access to emerging talent. They help college graduates land in jobs that require a college degree.
Yet in 2023, while more than eight million college students sought internships, only 3.6 million (44 percent) found one. Research shows even employers who want to offer opportunities face barriers: limited staff to supervise interns, difficulty designing programs, challenges finding candidates, and obstacles complying with labor laws.
A new Strada resource offers guidance for organizations that are positioned to play a vital role in addressing these challenges: employer intermediaries. The Framework for Effective Employer Intermediaries was developed by an action group of intermediary organization leaders, researchers, and policy experts who came together to define and guide the practice of employer intermediaries in order to grow work-based learning opportunities.
These organizations fill the gaps between industry and the education and workforce systems and play a critical role in enabling millions more learners to experience the benefits of work-based learning.
Learning and employment records, or LERs — digital records of an individual's formal and informal learning and employment — are quickly moving from concept to reality.
A new report from SmartResume, The LER Ecosystem Report, explains the basics of learning and employment records and maps the full landscape of participants and their roles. It also highlights where the field stands today and where it’s headed.
Intended as a field guide for anyone building, funding, governing, or operating the infrastructure between learning and work, the report gives leaders a practical foundation to develop a strategy for what comes next.
This report represents the fourth year of ongoing research into LERs and is informed by interviews and input from more than 100 experts spanning education, workforce development, government, standards bodies, and technology providers.
A new Strada-funded report from Brookings Metro offers evidence that supports the business case for offering apprenticeships. The U.S. is in the early stages of its journey toward modernizing and scaling high-quality apprenticeships, the report acknowledges, and the proliferation of new programs, funding streams, and approaches has advanced more quickly than the foundations for research and evidence on what works.
Strada leaders will join the National Center for the Apprenticeship Degree at SXSW EDU for a session about the future of apprenticeship degrees. The session will explore how apprenticeship degrees are scaling nationwide, with colleges and employers partnering to deliver low-cost, high-impact programs.
Rize Education, part of Strada’s strategic investments portfolio, surveyed more than 1,500 high school and undergraduate students for a new report, “The Hybrid College Wins: What Students Are Telling Us That Schools Ignore.” Among the findings: 66 percent of undergraduates want more online courses than their college offers, and 91 percent of high school students want at least one online class per semester.
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