Education history is more important than current education news!
June 3, 2016 in News by RBN Staff
The “Partners in a Global Economy Working Group” of the conference discussed “what redesigning of curricula is required… (i.e., what career skills are needed)… portability of skill certificates… institutionalizing cross-national learning/training activities.”
On the National Skill Standards Board website under international links, one finds “Smartcards Project Forum,” under which one reads: “The Tavistock Institute and the European Commission are working on a feasibility study to research the effect of using Smartcards in competence accreditation. The study will be carried out in the USA and parts of Europe.” The project involves assessing and validating students’ skills, with information placed on personal skills Smartcards, which “become real passports to employment.”
and training changes that this will require,” valid skills standards and portable credentials “benchmarked to international standards such as those promulgated by the International Standards Organization (ISO).”
all combining to act as a catalyst to promote the formation of partnerships to develop skills standards. In this regard, a system like O*Net can be seen as the glue that holds everything together.”
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
Former Senior Policy Advisor
U.S. Department of Education
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