Beyond the Skills Gap: Making Education Work for Students, Employers, and Communities

Authors

  • Mary Alice McCarthy New America, Education Policy Program

Abstract

In this paper, the author explores the relationship between higher education, workforce development, and the needs of students and employers for skills. McCarthy identifies a series of “policy gaps” that are hindering efforts to build stronger connections between learning and work.

The paper can be accessed at the following link, which also provides the option to view the full report as a PDF: www.edcentral.org/beyondtheskillsgap


Note

Thank you to New America and author Mary Alice McCarthy, of New America's Education Policy Program, for allowing us to share this resource with our readers.
New America Ed Central logo

Published

2014-10-17

Issue

No. 4 (2014): PLA and Workplace Learning

Section

Resources

License

Authors retain copyright of their work, and readers are free to print, share and distribute materials from PLA Inside-Out as long as they respect the rights of the author.  Materials included in PLA Inside-Out cannot be published without an author’s permission.

How to Cite

Beyond the Skills Gap: Making Education Work for Students, Employers, and Communities. (2014). PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research and Practice in Prior Learning Assessment, 4(4). https://plaio.org/index.php/home/article/view/77